Pith Number

pith:4JKZG6X2

pith:2000:4JKZG6X2PMT77J4VDAWSYKZ7II

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Quantum Field Theory from First Principles

Giampiero Esposito

arxiv:hep-th/0006040 v1 · 2000-06-06 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4JKZG6X2PMT77J4VDAWSYKZ7II}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T00:36:53.973064Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e255937afa7b27ffa795182d2c2b3f422a232f55fdb25fb16dd84438bbd530e4

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/0006040 · arxiv_version: hep-th/0006040v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0006040 · pith_short_12: 4JKZG6X2PMT7 · pith_short_16: 4JKZG6X2PMT77J4V · pith_short_8: 4JKZG6X2

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/4JKZG6X2PMT77J4VDAWSYKZ7II \
  | 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: e255937afa7b27ffa795182d2c2b3f422a232f55fdb25fb16dd84438bbd530e4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "96e6b40acf01fced2a3a921b40477dae3f916837a70030310e5a2d3cfd3302da",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2000-06-06T09:29:50Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fa8d7c49722ac49c7152b5d87c49c36d0ebe61ea533ad71b2b4be787ad55eb5b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/0006040",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}