Pith Number

pith:IUXJMZ3F

pith:2014:IUXJMZ3FBVQKYUI633H5QN3J72

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Emergent Weyl fermions and the origin of $i=\sqrt{-1}$ in quantum mechanics

G.E.Volovik, M.A.Zubkov

arxiv:1404.4084 v1 · 2014-04-15 · hep-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IUXJMZ3FBVQKYUI633H5QN3J72}

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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	2026-05-18T01:43:29.631865Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

452e9667650d60ac511edecfd83769fea219e09cd9f62db29225514763134b97

Aliases

arxiv: 1404.4084 · arxiv_version: 1404.4084v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1404.4084 · pith_short_12: IUXJMZ3FBVQK · pith_short_16: IUXJMZ3FBVQKYUI6 · pith_short_8: IUXJMZ3F

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/IUXJMZ3FBVQKYUI633H5QN3J72 \
  | 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: 452e9667650d60ac511edecfd83769fea219e09cd9f62db29225514763134b97

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b3bc49b463e895fefdb953cc22b4d2ca9afbd564f0394a6c6e36f0f475529bea",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2014-04-15T21:25:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4af687d927c76e6b22c1e2ee8231843c698f47dcf3779169a7f9b1e959c467ce"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1404.4084",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}