Pith Number

pith:74Q4WMYD

pith:2017:74Q4WMYDETOWA7XS2AN25F3JAG

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Structure of virtual photon polarization in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions

Gordon Baym, Michael Strickland, Tetsuo Hatsuda

arxiv:1704.04526 v1 · 2017-04-14 · hep-ph · nucl-th

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\pithnumber{74Q4WMYDETOWA7XS2AN25F3JAG}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:21:14.249465Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ff21cb330324dd607ef2d01bae976901bba7df8784f1710d34b7bcec672daece

Aliases

arxiv: 1704.04526 · arxiv_version: 1704.04526v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1704.04526 · pith_short_12: 74Q4WMYDETOW · pith_short_16: 74Q4WMYDETOWA7XS · pith_short_8: 74Q4WMYD

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/74Q4WMYDETOWA7XS2AN25F3JAG \
  | 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: ff21cb330324dd607ef2d01bae976901bba7df8784f1710d34b7bcec672daece

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6ea17230cb3779b8a0808f7ff34dc8fa2d3e49658c1f8faaf3485063defe1ad4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "nucl-th"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-04-14T19:54:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8303074ef0ed213a574982735067188c7e2a0668b3028cd5f3618d07d9e80911"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1704.04526",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}