Pith Number

pith:QCVAOH5L

pith:2001:QCVAOH5LMGTQEBDMHTWSNSXJII

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Why the Quark-Gluon Plasma isn't a Plasma

Robert D. Pisarski

arxiv:hep-ph/0101168 v2 · 2001-01-16 · hep-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QCVAOH5LMGTQEBDMHTWSNSXJII}

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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	2026-05-18T00:36:57.383775Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

80aa071fab61a702046c3ced26cae9423bd107f8cedd1e9f4d82b570f5b3e8f4

Aliases

arxiv: hep-ph/0101168 · arxiv_version: hep-ph/0101168v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/0101168 · pith_short_12: QCVAOH5LMGTQ · pith_short_16: QCVAOH5LMGTQEBDM · pith_short_8: QCVAOH5L

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/QCVAOH5LMGTQEBDMHTWSNSXJII \
  | 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: 80aa071fab61a702046c3ced26cae9423bd107f8cedd1e9f4d82b570f5b3e8f4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a9b1dec30ac2c4e8c19eb00c682866902867338ac3a46fed2c1237fd1ca51f47",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2001-01-16T05:51:33Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "aeb0a120af09a580f0fbdf80fee974fc9af4636aaab676f8e051d8c9b3be7688"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-ph/0101168",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}