Pith Number

pith:FFSU7YL3

pith:1997:FFSU7YL3OBOFXJI2ZKPQIAFKGS

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Instantons and the Chiral Phase Transition at non-zero Baryon Density

Thomas Schaefer

arxiv:hep-ph/9708256 v2 · 1997-08-05 · hep-ph · hep-lat · nucl-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{FFSU7YL3OBOFXJI2ZKPQIAFKGS}

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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.

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First computed	2026-07-04T16:05:10.357863Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

29654fe17b705c5ba51aca9f0400aa34921448978317f0d611a8aa14d3b6b9d8

Aliases

arxiv: hep-ph/9708256 · arxiv_version: hep-ph/9708256v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/9708256 · pith_short_12: FFSU7YL3OBOF · pith_short_16: FFSU7YL3OBOFXJI2 · pith_short_8: FFSU7YL3

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/FFSU7YL3OBOFXJI2ZKPQIAFKGS \
  | 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: 29654fe17b705c5ba51aca9f0400aa34921448978317f0d611a8aa14d3b6b9d8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1a6e21e967c15d7a7d6519b740912c2fbc7584fa468636fcad89f89cbf786b2e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-lat",
      "nucl-th"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1997-08-05T21:06:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "09df8e7aac63b3b886730ea8de90045c59ff268298259175da8b8d96f6c724c3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-ph/9708256",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}