Pith Number

pith:QMJ5QPXA

pith:2017:QMJ5QPXA4CL2I2Q2Z77YLRNMIW

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Reflection positivity in higher derivative scalar theories

Chris Ripken, Daniel Becker, Francesca Arici, Frank Saueressig, Walter D. van Suijlekom

arxiv:1712.04308 v1 · 2017-12-12 · hep-th · math-ph · math.MP

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\pithnumber{QMJ5QPXA4CL2I2Q2Z77YLRNMIW}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:07:11.241256Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8313d83ee0e097a46a1acfff85c5ac45acf0625cf82329ea5e664017ec7af3d6

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.04308 · arxiv_version: 1712.04308v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.04308 · pith_short_12: QMJ5QPXA4CL2 · pith_short_16: QMJ5QPXA4CL2I2Q2 · pith_short_8: QMJ5QPXA

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/QMJ5QPXA4CL2I2Q2Z77YLRNMIW \
  | 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: 8313d83ee0e097a46a1acfff85c5ac45acf0625cf82329ea5e664017ec7af3d6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "10f3dcc46a7149080d4bb35a5ed51e9beb0b04cb9d7122a623d716e3495ebf09",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math-ph",
      "math.MP"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-12T14:30:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3f2c692da83da8846882f2884ebaa45d88c9e87dde93ecda3377435dea267673"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.04308",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}