Pith Number

pith:KQTSHBFL

pith:2005:KQTSHBFLN3Z3X4SJB5NKLAM7VO

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

PT-Symmetric Quantum Electrodynamics

Carl M. Bender, Ines Cavero-Pelaez, Kimball A. Milton, K. V. Shajesh

arxiv:hep-th/0501180 v1 · 2005-01-21 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KQTSHBFLN3Z3X4SJB5NKLAM7VO}

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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	2026-05-18T04:17:54.994539Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

54272384ab6ef3bbf2490f5aa5819fab86141b863be6a1a01f5147980bb6d61e

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/0501180 · arxiv_version: hep-th/0501180v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0501180 · pith_short_12: KQTSHBFLN3Z3 · pith_short_16: KQTSHBFLN3Z3X4SJ · pith_short_8: KQTSHBFL

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/KQTSHBFLN3Z3X4SJB5NKLAM7VO \
  | 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: 54272384ab6ef3bbf2490f5aa5819fab86141b863be6a1a01f5147980bb6d61e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "584a3f24bdb48d16051865edf1c47cf5d5b1a8c4d5742ddafd49172daec09004",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2005-01-21T23:07:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "eda9037ca18c930a3b03bf3ebab70fd72732cdf9ec6ef8322001bcb7df6546b1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/0501180",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}