Pith Number

pith:L36XZCIJ

pith:2025:L36XZCIJZTX23HR5EMA7USY7GF

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Quantum Field Theory Between Rigor and Pragmatism

Johannes Branahl

arxiv:2505.15577 v1 · 2025-05-21 · physics.hist-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{L36XZCIJZTX23HR5EMA7USY7GF}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-07-05T11:06:48.024099Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5efd7c8909ccefad9e3d2301fa4b1f3168ecd8e1d169cb2758367100fa104412

Aliases

arxiv: 2505.15577 · arxiv_version: 2505.15577v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2505.15577 · pith_short_12: L36XZCIJZTX2 · pith_short_16: L36XZCIJZTX23HR5 · pith_short_8: L36XZCIJ

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/L36XZCIJZTX23HR5EMA7USY7GF \
  | 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: 5efd7c8909ccefad9e3d2301fa4b1f3168ecd8e1d169cb2758367100fa104412

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "09da16880ec6d2d4c03dfc85af740c63bedfc0a2d2fa4594e50c2ca12f665ff3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.hist-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2025-05-21T14:30:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "690500b079a76138e9e3e7120cb8bf06548f3cf6744a2eae3489133381ec60ba"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2505.15577",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}