Pith Number

pith:7OV2GGSE

pith:2012:7OV2GGSE5FAYM5LYUVEP4ZA3NV

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Effective Field Theories and the Role of Consistency in Theory Choice

James D. Wells

arxiv:1211.0634 v1 · 2012-11-03 · physics.hist-ph · hep-ph · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{7OV2GGSE5FAYM5LYUVEP4ZA3NV}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T03:20:06.592228Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

fbaba31a44e941867578a548fe641b6d6088cec2cb1479753350453055f22026

Aliases

arxiv: 1211.0634 · arxiv_version: 1211.0634v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1211.0634 · pith_short_12: 7OV2GGSE5FAY · pith_short_16: 7OV2GGSE5FAYM5LY · pith_short_8: 7OV2GGSE

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/7OV2GGSE5FAYM5LYUVEP4ZA3NV \
  | 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: fbaba31a44e941867578a548fe641b6d6088cec2cb1479753350453055f22026

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2f39a1fb966261740b2c23a93f39935a770e7aea0155499e5bd03168abbb8578",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-ph",
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.hist-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-11-03T19:47:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0e8c20675c1df62ce35cdbbe648578642c1d9f46d513d21fb1220e0def86104e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1211.0634",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}