Pith Number

pith:SPYIPVGK

pith:1996:SPYIPVGK2TSEUT4H5DMOMCMPWP

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Chiral Symmetry Breaking in QCD: A Variational Approach

(2) Montpellier U., (3) CERN), A. Neveu (2) ((1) Imperial College, C. Arvanitis (1), F. Geniet (2), J.-L. Kneur (3)

arxiv:hep-ph/9609247 v1 · 1996-09-04 · hep-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SPYIPVGK2TSEUT4H5DMOMCMPWP}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T02:37:11.362380Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

93f087d4cad4e44a4f87e8d8e6098fb3c62432abbfc350ad33da4e4a5aaf189d

Aliases

arxiv: hep-ph/9609247 · arxiv_version: hep-ph/9609247v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/9609247 · pith_short_12: SPYIPVGK2TSE · pith_short_16: SPYIPVGK2TSEUT4H · pith_short_8: SPYIPVGK

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/SPYIPVGK2TSEUT4H5DMOMCMPWP \
  | 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: 93f087d4cad4e44a4f87e8d8e6098fb3c62432abbfc350ad33da4e4a5aaf189d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0b31ddd245fa02f5b761b5edbf2df6d948f2ac4f906e14c2dbbfb18026d6d8c7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1996-09-04T16:05:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0237f9771f97189d79b64e45513973e10ceb22cd00983b9c927454542eed2e7c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-ph/9609247",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}