Pith Number

pith:REBEPB6H

pith:2002:REBEPB6H4DAWJHODNWIMIROJBT

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Negative Energy Densities in Quantum Field Theory With a Background Potential

Ken D. Olum, Noah Graham

arxiv:hep-th/0211244 v2 · 2002-11-25 · hep-th

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{REBEPB6H4DAWJHODNWIMIROJBT}

Prints a linked badge after your title and injects PDF metadata. Compiles on arXiv. Learn more · Embed verified badge

Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T02:35:53.374092Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

89024787c7e0c1649dc36d90c445c90cccbea5c828f3f2fcd41420bc4ec2c6c3

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/0211244 · arxiv_version: hep-th/0211244v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0211244 · pith_short_12: REBEPB6H4DAW · pith_short_16: REBEPB6H4DAWJHOD · pith_short_8: REBEPB6H

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/REBEPB6H4DAWJHODNWIMIROJBT \
  | 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: 89024787c7e0c1649dc36d90c445c90cccbea5c828f3f2fcd41420bc4ec2c6c3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2a928cb422832d7065fbb42ac2666145b571da1e008b783ff9afcc112eb6b37b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2002-11-25T16:39:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "35d5f3253732d66abeaf1460f6c6753f7c00bd1be486f56d417a467bcfad99fa"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/0211244",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}