Pith Number

pith:7VSJSVI6

pith:1996:7VSJSVI6D4XVODCLXDF3PZS52S

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Renormalization and Chiral Symmetry Breaking in Quenched QED in Arbitrary Covariant Gauge

Anthony G. Williams (University of Adelaide, Australia), Craig D. Roberts (Argonne National Laboratory), Frederick T. Hawes (SCRI/Florida State University)

arxiv:hep-ph/9604402 v2 · 1996-04-25 · hep-ph · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{7VSJSVI6D4XVODCLXDF3PZS52S}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-07-04T17:22:49.965968Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

fd6499551e1f2f570c4bb8cbb7e65dd4b02fe8432ba0ab326d690dfd1e0b85db

Aliases

arxiv: hep-ph/9604402 · arxiv_version: hep-ph/9604402v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/9604402 · pith_short_12: 7VSJSVI6D4XV · pith_short_16: 7VSJSVI6D4XVODCL · pith_short_8: 7VSJSVI6

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/7VSJSVI6D4XVODCLXDF3PZS52S \
  | 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: fd6499551e1f2f570c4bb8cbb7e65dd4b02fe8432ba0ab326d690dfd1e0b85db

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cff130dfe5cea778c781077c1ee3948f090b7c4ac76377ae9a77ea3b738b3dec",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1996-04-25T16:57:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "168173975ee12692a317b33be8a234bc13027cadc96e7555465c55321d1b61b0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-ph/9604402",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}