Pith Number

pith:ND5IXN7L

pith:2026:ND5IXN7L4OQFQOPMCHWGMZA4MI

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Superselected ghost theory: perturbation theory

Bob Holdom

arxiv:2608.09017 v1 · 2026-08-10 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ND5IXN7L4OQFQOPMCHWGMZA4MI}

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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	2026-08-11T01:25:59.202964Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

68fa8bb7ebe3a05839ec11ec66641c6203c8521af24e294ffb7cd40fc40e0c60

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.09017 · arxiv_version: 2608.09017v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.09017 · pith_short_12: ND5IXN7L4OQF · pith_short_16: ND5IXN7L4OQFQOPM · pith_short_8: ND5IXN7L

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/ND5IXN7L4OQFQOPMCHWGMZA4MI \
  | 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: 68fa8bb7ebe3a05839ec11ec66641c6203c8521af24e294ffb7cd40fc40e0c60

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cf2732aa28174a9b4e5002fb244a3cdc4af533fa947e39749a3d7f37e5d6012f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-10T02:16:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "23ac1f91d20f47ed50a4ba159844a3098d4bef06794ec27cb8ad811066cc86d3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.09017",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}