Pith Number

pith:KQL6ISAG

pith:1999:KQL6ISAGALLXE3MWZFIHR5BPC6

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

On finite-density QCD at large Nc

D. T. Son, E. Shuster

arxiv:hep-ph/9905448 v2 · 1999-05-21 · hep-ph · hep-th · nucl-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KQL6ISAGALLXE3MWZFIHR5BPC6}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T04:22:51.801697Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5417e4480602d7726d96c95078f42f17a73c7a806d6cdd173f04577e40ef732d

Aliases

arxiv: hep-ph/9905448 · arxiv_version: hep-ph/9905448v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/9905448 · pith_short_12: KQL6ISAGALLX · pith_short_16: KQL6ISAGALLXE3MW · pith_short_8: KQL6ISAG

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/KQL6ISAGALLXE3MWZFIHR5BPC6 \
  | 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: 5417e4480602d7726d96c95078f42f17a73c7a806d6cdd173f04577e40ef732d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ecef2ccd37b4095a4ca8fa4b00e9ec323f04bf2a62403f1541e66513a1779659",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-th",
      "nucl-th"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1999-05-21T18:28:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6a18029c5b8e37aceb560b3de366ac28bfaf9732de81ee596bdbde3367fb3bb3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-ph/9905448",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}