Pith Number

pith:QVZKR3A5

pith:2015:QVZKR3A5WGVSWPIEX3FLFXSSXB

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The Perturbative Approach to Path Integrals: A Succinct Mathematical Treatment

Timothy Nguyen

arxiv:1505.04809 v5 · 2015-05-18 · math-ph · hep-th · math.DG · math.MP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QVZKR3A5WGVSWPIEX3FLFXSSXB}

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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	2026-05-18T01:02:45.897790Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8572a8ec1db1ab2b3d04becab2de52b8733c43a9a3ede2b5d1f228a7c347ae23

Aliases

arxiv: 1505.04809 · arxiv_version: 1505.04809v5 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1505.04809 · pith_short_12: QVZKR3A5WGVS · pith_short_16: QVZKR3A5WGVSWPIE · pith_short_8: QVZKR3A5

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/QVZKR3A5WGVSWPIEX3FLFXSSXB \
  | 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: 8572a8ec1db1ab2b3d04becab2de52b8733c43a9a3ede2b5d1f228a7c347ae23

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "577167aff27b40b1a65c27fe99728115af454c73c87cba210e608593cbbea8e4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-th",
      "math.DG",
      "math.MP"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2015-05-18T20:22:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "910eabb7c247a48c5ac0e835a774ec1c663e49240651960f5f5390a4542d4c40"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1505.04809",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 5
  }
}