Pith Number

pith:LWGDKUXT

pith:2012:LWGDKUXTDPNS3UKV6V7XGH5MRX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Background Field Method as a Canonical Transformation

Andrea Quadri, Daniele Binosi

arxiv:1203.6637 v2 · 2012-03-29 · hep-th · hep-lat · hep-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LWGDKUXTDPNS3UKV6V7XGH5MRX}

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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	2026-05-18T01:58:00.320194Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5d8c3552f31bdb2dd155f57f731fac8dcd2a797ec033e2ebce2a13524444c99d

Aliases

arxiv: 1203.6637 · arxiv_version: 1203.6637v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1203.6637 · pith_short_12: LWGDKUXTDPNS · pith_short_16: LWGDKUXTDPNS3UKV · pith_short_8: LWGDKUXT

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/LWGDKUXTDPNS3UKV6V7XGH5MRX \
  | 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: 5d8c3552f31bdb2dd155f57f731fac8dcd2a797ec033e2ebce2a13524444c99d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5934b6921599d0c19548e2217f55c763d43044b67771461227bc056a021ae870",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-lat",
      "hep-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2012-03-29T19:22:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "57d413d6b3484dea6577caedb6bf5a12bf5872fb221053c0ba35760cda6a0714"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1203.6637",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}