Pith Number

pith:K5ZW5ANP

pith:1994:K5ZW5ANP7GNC5X5MH4EFQJFVL5

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Proper-time methods in the presence of non-constant background fields

Alan Chodos

arxiv:hep-ph/9410393 v1 · 1994-10-27 · hep-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{K5ZW5ANP7GNC5X5MH4EFQJFVL5}

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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	2026-05-18T01:39:00.901782Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

57736e81aff99a2edfac3f085824b55f5a48db0311a7ce63d823e5a2dadc6649

Aliases

arxiv: hep-ph/9410393 · arxiv_version: hep-ph/9410393v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/9410393 · pith_short_12: K5ZW5ANP7GNC · pith_short_16: K5ZW5ANP7GNC5X5M · pith_short_8: K5ZW5ANP

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/K5ZW5ANP7GNC5X5MH4EFQJFVL5 \
  | 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: 57736e81aff99a2edfac3f085824b55f5a48db0311a7ce63d823e5a2dadc6649

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2f9e1be13faefe33ce3fc615f9d4f91f5929fd4a214d25501b2ba3eb1a28943d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1994-10-27T15:07:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "21ac9cb5962ed6cf9082a13e4420e4c785846c6bd85c0e70d93ab43aa866bb0c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-ph/9410393",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}