Pith Number

pith:PFK2MJ32

pith:1996:PFK2MJ325HAFSB72W3JE6EBFER

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Perturbation Theory with a Variational Basis: the Generalized Gaussian Effective Potential

Luigi Tedesco, Paolo Cea

arxiv:hep-th/9607156 v1 · 1996-07-18 · hep-th · hep-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PFK2MJ325HAFSB72W3JE6EBFER}

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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	2026-05-18T02:36:03.177138Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7955a6277ae9c05907fab6d24f10252455046661f3e81ef5ef6e2c0ab2c9fbb6

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9607156 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9607156v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9607156 · pith_short_12: PFK2MJ325HAF · pith_short_16: PFK2MJ325HAFSB72 · pith_short_8: PFK2MJ32

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/PFK2MJ325HAFSB72W3JE6EBFER \
  | 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: 7955a6277ae9c05907fab6d24f10252455046661f3e81ef5ef6e2c0ab2c9fbb6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0e795cb46e564792d502cc3551e29584ea59561fee59079db33f23e9f5d12c16",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-ph"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1996-07-18T12:42:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ee98db13f2dfed7046f07fd41507494343100c95d076332fca3411ca2236abec"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9607156",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}