Pith Number

pith:E3SEK3AV

pith:1996:E3SEK3AVDHHDU6Q5Z6D7XVZKL3

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

QED_2 in Curved Backgrounds

Amit Ghosh

arxiv:hep-th/9604056 v2 · 1996-04-10 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{E3SEK3AVDHHDU6Q5Z6D7XVZKL3}

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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	2026-07-04T15:07:52.877174Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

26e4456c1519ce3a7a1dcf87fbd72a5ee2391f6fd4c35f06fca5e3767a4d0de7

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9604056 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9604056v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9604056 · pith_short_12: E3SEK3AVDHHD · pith_short_16: E3SEK3AVDHHDU6Q5 · pith_short_8: E3SEK3AV

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/E3SEK3AVDHHDU6Q5Z6D7XVZKL3 \
  | 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: 26e4456c1519ce3a7a1dcf87fbd72a5ee2391f6fd4c35f06fca5e3767a4d0de7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "74a778076c9dd3d7d8a79bb8343a7dd0bc45fab2ea595208fe1e77347854f883",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1996-04-10T21:37:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ea0b8b5d9d64a7ecbd4d1da622c425eb989bf858b5ee6e113fee42f83bc4fc62"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9604056",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}