Pith Number

pith:GKI5QEVA

pith:1998:GKI5QEVADB3YBI6TGWYF7LPDUQ

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On the QED Effective Action in Time Dependent Electric Backgrounds

Gerald Dunne, Theodore Hall (U. Connecticut)

arxiv:hep-th/9807031 v2 · 1998-07-03 · hep-th

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Resurgence of the Effective Action in Inhomogeneous Fields

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First computed	2026-07-04T16:09:51.150021Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3291d812a0187780a3d335b05fade3a41d4bab349f964e8b9374fbebd5c22379

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9807031 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9807031v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9807031 · pith_short_12: GKI5QEVADB3Y · pith_short_16: GKI5QEVADB3YBI6T · pith_short_8: GKI5QEVA

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/GKI5QEVADB3YBI6TGWYF7LPDUQ \
  | 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: 3291d812a0187780a3d335b05fade3a41d4bab349f964e8b9374fbebd5c22379

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3b3d3fd8a2af8291704a2f0045d919f96ec9a4afbae1f99db59b9dee2179b0b2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1998-07-03T17:05:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ca067a73b52b55804d1d13f250ed2e51f35d1744fa2f5032e9bf395cec70db63"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9807031",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}