Pith Number

pith:PZ6L3AB4

pith:1996:PZ6L3AB4SAXE3AQYXCGLQ6ZYWV

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Sphaleron on $S^{3}$

Mikhail S. Volkov

arxiv:hep-th/9609200 v1 · 1996-09-25 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PZ6L3AB4SAXE3AQYXCGLQ6ZYWV}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T04:23:54.789985Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7e7cbd803c902e4d8218b88cb87b38b54f11637c383edecdb1f58c2a4ccf7464

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9609200 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9609200v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9609200 · pith_short_12: PZ6L3AB4SAXE · pith_short_16: PZ6L3AB4SAXE3AQY · pith_short_8: PZ6L3AB4

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/PZ6L3AB4SAXE3AQYXCGLQ6ZYWV \
  | 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: 7e7cbd803c902e4d8218b88cb87b38b54f11637c383edecdb1f58c2a4ccf7464

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8e6ab78c5bd0b1b4e0ab74471526a28fe4758517e5f3b59fe91a43a0831e6be4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1996-09-25T14:39:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "42e2241f3acce41db4b5ba9688dece064b20824a9941f6067bd416e66c3b0a13"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9609200",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}