Pith Number

pith:L5E4OUL6

pith:2026:L5E4OUL6F5TPYQNFXRHMYNE57A

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Soft QED as Open Quantum System: Infrared Cancellation and Soft-Shell Coarse Graining

Soo-Jong Rey

arxiv:2606.27498 v1 · 2026-06-25 · hep-th · cond-mat.stat-mech · hep-ph · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{L5E4OUL6F5TPYQNFXRHMYNE57A}

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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.

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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-06-29T00:14:08.262928Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5f49c7517e2f66fc41a5bc4ecc349df8353116ef26ef5ddd2328c19e3d536ee6

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.27498 · arxiv_version: 2606.27498v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.27498 · pith_short_12: L5E4OUL6F5TP · pith_short_16: L5E4OUL6F5TPYQNF · pith_short_8: L5E4OUL6

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/L5E4OUL6F5TPYQNFXRHMYNE57A \
  | 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: 5f49c7517e2f66fc41a5bc4ecc349df8353116ef26ef5ddd2328c19e3d536ee6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "98c6f44ae16f4ab75b601409218879a6e7d6ca93f020101390ded9a6c7a783a1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cond-mat.stat-mech",
      "hep-ph",
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-25T19:32:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "551e3a85afa0d6944926b319bb2ccefd7783c223d8a57c3798f977c2ef9de045"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.27498",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}