Pith Number

pith:KXYXE4LL

pith:2009:KXYXE4LL6HI63X3OSXXKUD5DEI

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Non-Quadratic Gauge Fixing and Global Gauge Invariance in the Effective Action

D. G. C. McKeon, F. T. Brandt

arxiv:0903.3173 v1 · 2009-03-18 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KXYXE4LL6HI63X3OSXXKUD5DEI}

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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	2026-05-18T02:35:00.332775Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

55f172716bf1d1eddf6e95eeaa0fa322193f7165e72cbdb42591237242d2d683

Aliases

arxiv: 0903.3173 · arxiv_version: 0903.3173v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0903.3173 · pith_short_12: KXYXE4LL6HI6 · pith_short_16: KXYXE4LL6HI63X3O · pith_short_8: KXYXE4LL

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/KXYXE4LL6HI63X3OSXXKUD5DEI \
  | 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: 55f172716bf1d1eddf6e95eeaa0fa322193f7165e72cbdb42591237242d2d683

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4232848d2d5a3502fecfa15e2f3066f4f370347afb9a2cf59db66ab60b93181c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2009-03-18T14:47:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "737ab673d6f19b3ed51f14170946e7211ea94c4a2618b16a4a4c99baabcae167"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0903.3173",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}