Pith Number

pith:JZHPET7C

pith:1998:JZHPET7CE6HNFLUMXJ4F3HBPS7

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The effective action and quantum gauge transformations

S. Alexandrov

arxiv:hep-th/9807159 v2 · 1998-07-21 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JZHPET7CE6HNFLUMXJ4F3HBPS7}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:08:00.370970Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4e4ef24fe2278ed2ae8cba785d9c2f97c0a07300b0402e371e58502f05daa131

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9807159 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9807159v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9807159 · pith_short_12: JZHPET7CE6HN · pith_short_16: JZHPET7CE6HNFLUM · pith_short_8: JZHPET7C

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/JZHPET7CE6HNFLUMXJ4F3HBPS7 \
  | 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: 4e4ef24fe2278ed2ae8cba785d9c2f97c0a07300b0402e371e58502f05daa131

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "eb0f7ddddebe90a430494d934066f6ed934a377be689f3b7e94631ed16aaf471",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1998-07-21T13:24:17Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "318b824515a3fbbb67d2b81a773b99e4b8c4870f217882b3582982900f928757"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9807159",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}