Pith Number

pith:IMMIWUZ4

pith:2026:IMMIWUZ4JK433N5UAKDPMBVIZN

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Properties of the quantum vacuum in non-abelian gauge theories

Fernando Ezquerro

arxiv:2605.18220 v1 · 2026-05-18 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IMMIWUZ4JK433N5UAKDPMBVIZN}

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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	2026-05-20T00:05:51.038790Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

43188b533c4ab9bdb7b40286f606a8cb493e164a652912553347f491549b171e

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.18220 · arxiv_version: 2605.18220v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.18220 · pith_short_12: IMMIWUZ4JK43 · pith_short_16: IMMIWUZ4JK433N5U · pith_short_8: IMMIWUZ4

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/IMMIWUZ4JK433N5UAKDPMBVIZN \
  | 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: 43188b533c4ab9bdb7b40286f606a8cb493e164a652912553347f491549b171e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2261fc4db8531fa5b56e287a9982689296e24c8f28a691ac1ecfba64efb2e1ba",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-18T11:04:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3f86e2ecbc7c60e0e0b0755ee5ce53408771cfcfe01c3d0f469df06b40288598"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.18220",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}