Pith Number

pith:SG4W5WZT

pith:1992:SG4W5WZTNLIM2EEYDXQWRO2WMX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

On the Breakdown of Perturbation Theory

C. Bachas

arxiv:hep-th/9212033 v1 · 1992-12-04 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SG4W5WZTNLIM2EEYDXQWRO2WMX}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T04:37:43.781567Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

91b96edb336ad0cd10981de168bb5665fcc3d7bff9184a2bcd3f5cfb63946614

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9212033 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9212033v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9212033 · pith_short_12: SG4W5WZTNLIM · pith_short_16: SG4W5WZTNLIM2EEY · pith_short_8: SG4W5WZT

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/SG4W5WZTNLIM2EEYDXQWRO2WMX \
  | 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: 91b96edb336ad0cd10981de168bb5665fcc3d7bff9184a2bcd3f5cfb63946614

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3aadae4c75f866b59444a1326e6b54469051954919ed2fae39e3f60a76513dc8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1992-12-04T18:07:56Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3121ae72ca1f65de77ad1c90245102cc8df96ee71ca7a4387a6cc65c98a24329"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9212033",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}