Pith Number

pith:SBFSUKNR

pith:2024:SBFSUKNR6UXEAMIOEHCRTNXJTH

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Making sense of ghosts

Bob Holdom

arxiv:2408.04089 v3 · 2024-08-07 · 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{SBFSUKNR6UXEAMIOEHCRTNXJTH}

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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.

Cited by

4 papers in Pith

Ghosts versus Unstable Particles in Quantum Field Theory

Escape from Ostrogradsky via Hidden Ghost Parity

Asymptotic Quantum Dynamics of Ghost Fields

Unitary Time Evolution and Vacuum for a Quantum Stable Ghost

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T09:12:30.432047Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

904b2a29b1f52e40310e21c519b6e999ed6dceb98e503658bf20f570ba97e877

Aliases

arxiv: 2408.04089 · arxiv_version: 2408.04089v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2408.04089 · pith_short_12: SBFSUKNR6UXE · pith_short_16: SBFSUKNR6UXEAMIO · pith_short_8: SBFSUKNR

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/SBFSUKNR6UXEAMIOEHCRTNXJTH \
  | 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: 904b2a29b1f52e40310e21c519b6e999ed6dceb98e503658bf20f570ba97e877

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7176f233d89f7e1437263c046af1569bddbf81f06fbbbfab92d406b05f81cf10",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2024-08-07T21:03:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6606ca1ce0ddb5cc50342c1ee518d972333861d13f4bd23367fb1762f9b96cd1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2408.04089",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}