Pith Number

pith:I2Y2POA2

pith:1996:I2Y2POA2FHD2ROZDULU6QRVON5

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Some Lessons from the Schwinger Model

Gary McCartor

arxiv:hep-th/9609140 v1 · 1996-09-17 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{I2Y2POA2FHD2ROZDULU6QRVON5}

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4 Citations 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	2026-05-18T01:38:37.740007Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

46b1a7b81a29c7a8bb23a2e9e846ae6f5e6258436cfd0324be9c3de8be258616

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9609140 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9609140v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9609140 · pith_short_12: I2Y2POA2FHD2 · pith_short_16: I2Y2POA2FHD2ROZD · pith_short_8: I2Y2POA2

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/I2Y2POA2FHD2ROZDULU6QRVON5 \
  | 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: 46b1a7b81a29c7a8bb23a2e9e846ae6f5e6258436cfd0324be9c3de8be258616

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4a80262cf6ada2cdac0b46e043e7e743d9a3902cd8283754ad5687086a559224",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1996-09-17T18:37:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7534760abcff100d033402e7c04167b2ad5b389c6cd0c7f36ef6d53610172580"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9609140",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}