Pith Number

pith:WA3IU2DU

pith:1994:WA3IU2DUYG6WMZFILCAN3TB6AU

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Proton Life-Time Problem In Finite Grand Unified Theories

E. Keith, N. Deshpande, Xiao-Gang He

arxiv:hep-ph/9404243 v1 · 1994-04-08 · hep-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WA3IU2DUYG6WMZFILCAN3TB6AU}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T04:17:44.189268Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b0368a6874c1bd6664a85880ddcc3e053cb247f0ce1bb92b1f1a0aecb0d65e42

Aliases

arxiv: hep-ph/9404243 · arxiv_version: hep-ph/9404243v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/9404243 · pith_short_12: WA3IU2DUYG6W · pith_short_16: WA3IU2DUYG6WMZFI · pith_short_8: WA3IU2DU

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/WA3IU2DUYG6WMZFILCAN3TB6AU \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: b0368a6874c1bd6664a85880ddcc3e053cb247f0ce1bb92b1f1a0aecb0d65e42

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d6120ed07f11a4fc5c641f71b892a09dfdf446b7b0975eb7ce905060a537c376",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1994-04-08T21:38:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3c08cec2c8a3e26516d73891a9923c3a34b69d2a4fe0788554877a485f83125b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-ph/9404243",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}