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pith:1997:QIJ5DPDYQOL7SDLJHV4VSY2ZMX
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What is Quantum Field Theory, and What Did We Think It Is?

Steven Weinberg

arxiv:hep-th/9702027 v1 · 1997-02-04 · hep-th · cond-mat · gr-qc · hep-ph

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First computed 2026-07-04T14:33:04.074972Z
Builder pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature Pith Ed25519 (pith-v1-2026-05) · public key
Schema pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8213d1bc788397f90d693d7959635965eacb473d2cd0eecc3d3867af7803b359

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9702027 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9702027v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9702027 · pith_short_12: QIJ5DPDYQOL7 · pith_short_16: QIJ5DPDYQOL7SDLJ · pith_short_8: QIJ5DPDY
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Verify this Pith Number yourself
curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/QIJ5DPDYQOL7SDLJHV4VSY2ZMX \
  | 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: 8213d1bc788397f90d693d7959635965eacb473d2cd0eecc3d3867af7803b359
Canonical record JSON
{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0fecb8428d1e9de3861664765150f11592dbb36fc4b7bd473014e83b66af36de",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cond-mat",
      "gr-qc",
      "hep-ph"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1997-02-04T02:06:55Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7520191c070e86545c34c8aa9df99d0177eb953dd925ebb928ac009d454bb80a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9702027",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}