Pith Number

pith:L3CVQSQS

pith:2001:L3CVQSQS3ZPB2SMWOQNLUVVTKV

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Mesoscopic QCD and the Theta Vacua

Jonathan Lenaghan, Thomas Wilke

arxiv:hep-th/0108166 v2 · 2001-08-22 · hep-th · hep-lat · hep-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{L3CVQSQS3ZPB2SMWOQNLUVVTKV}

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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	2026-05-18T01:05:59.838363Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5ec5584a12de5e1d4996741aba56b3554e954b7aed3f816aeb0b9cb016b4d105

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/0108166 · arxiv_version: hep-th/0108166v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0108166 · pith_short_12: L3CVQSQS3ZPB · pith_short_16: L3CVQSQS3ZPB2SMW · pith_short_8: L3CVQSQS

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/L3CVQSQS3ZPB2SMWOQNLUVVTKV \
  | 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: 5ec5584a12de5e1d4996741aba56b3554e954b7aed3f816aeb0b9cb016b4d105

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "523b95ed13e1b3e8a979754f96760ad56557e9cc0544771c8f52690b031b557f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-lat",
      "hep-ph"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2001-08-22T15:03:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "866d507c916cee20e7ff9001f932c9a4947dd5e1d1a6ec29be2c7022ea84fbee"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/0108166",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}