Pith Number

pith:L4JUVGXG

pith:1998:L4JUVGXGIESGUWGVGBXYAPPDQP

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

An Improved Gaussian Approximation for Quantum Field Theory

Aleksandar Belic, Aleksandar Bogojevic (Institute of Physics, Antun Balaz, Belgrade)

arxiv:hep-th/9804207 v1 · 1998-04-30 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{L4JUVGXGIESGUWGVGBXYAPPDQP}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T04:16:10.967663Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5f134a9ae641246a58d5306f803de383fac0f9a1fc7a982c3c6158c55c6fc958

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9804207 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9804207v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9804207 · pith_short_12: L4JUVGXGIESG · pith_short_16: L4JUVGXGIESGUWGV · pith_short_8: L4JUVGXG

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/L4JUVGXGIESGUWGVGBXYAPPDQP \
  | 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: 5f134a9ae641246a58d5306f803de383fac0f9a1fc7a982c3c6158c55c6fc958

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c2b62eec7c9d17c79098d9f3614c18439638d1ff8c4d6e8944d616f90fd501aa",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1998-04-30T17:31:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "78bd22ce683a5b52c4a373cb68d0023d7e8d28fa977f9d2abc0657ada9a873b5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9804207",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}