Pith Number

pith:A3P6EBQ6

pith:2016:A3P6EBQ63BAWGPOJ5C3SBIUCBP

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Nodal Variational Principle for Excited States

Federico Zahariev, Mark S. Gordon, Mel Levy

arxiv:1609.02241 v5 · 2016-09-08 · quant-ph · physics.chem-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{A3P6EBQ63BAWGPOJ5C3SBIUCBP}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:07:28.555343Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

06dfe2061ed841633dc9e8b720a2820bf5e50851150984746ef92fae94d0e99d

Aliases

arxiv: 1609.02241 · arxiv_version: 1609.02241v5 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1609.02241 · pith_short_12: A3P6EBQ63BAW · pith_short_16: A3P6EBQ63BAWGPOJ · pith_short_8: A3P6EBQ6

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/A3P6EBQ63BAWGPOJ5C3SBIUCBP \
  | 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: 06dfe2061ed841633dc9e8b720a2820bf5e50851150984746ef92fae94d0e99d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cac496dcc1165fdd5bf06311b30624fc0029993eaa9c5abc6971907ea8800517",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.chem-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-09-08T01:48:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4ca32844dccd747957400e51f98b13b06a5c14e00e83bc590fcb45b5c759e1d8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1609.02241",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 5
  }
}