Pith Number

pith:K2Y4WLMJ

pith:2000:K2Y4WLMJ5UZTRMVBF3SF6XGYYI

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Boundary Operators in Quantum Field Theory

Giampiero Esposito

arxiv:hep-th/0001086 v2 · 2000-01-14 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{K2Y4WLMJ5UZTRMVBF3SF6XGYYI}

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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	2026-05-18T00:53:52.095480Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

56b1cb2d89ed3338b2a12ee45f5cd8c231a70300f16db4e6f3c0f67981322dae

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/0001086 · arxiv_version: hep-th/0001086v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0001086 · pith_short_12: K2Y4WLMJ5UZT · pith_short_16: K2Y4WLMJ5UZTRMVB · pith_short_8: K2Y4WLMJ

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/K2Y4WLMJ5UZTRMVBF3SF6XGYYI \
  | 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: 56b1cb2d89ed3338b2a12ee45f5cd8c231a70300f16db4e6f3c0f67981322dae

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "334d19ae1d615068e302ca72990b4b63dc6d7ab95d44e4e2e0429f60a50baee3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2000-01-14T08:47:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "464b157a83fe978bc14a98c58f49f61dad721afa3f20ea6d84bf3ebe625bce7c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/0001086",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}