Pith Number

pith:UFV77GVN

pith:2026:UFV77GVNKXLU4GJ4R2EGZNITNK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Ghosts versus Unstable Particles in Quantum Field Theory

Luca Buoninfante

arxiv:2606.18349 v1 · 2026-06-16 · hep-th · gr-qc · hep-ph · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{UFV77GVNKXLU4GJ4R2EGZNITNK}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-06-19T16:10:58.516846Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a16bff9aad55d74e193c8e886cb5136a934d8df2c69ffe740174974af91d67be

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.18349 · arxiv_version: 2606.18349v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.18349 · pith_short_12: UFV77GVNKXLU · pith_short_16: UFV77GVNKXLU4GJ4 · pith_short_8: UFV77GVN

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/UFV77GVNKXLU4GJ4R2EGZNITNK \
  | 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: a16bff9aad55d74e193c8e886cb5136a934d8df2c69ffe740174974af91d67be

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fff8bd023345dcbfe76d3ce73041b2cfb876efa63957608d87cddcc74acff548",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc",
      "hep-ph",
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-16T18:00:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6ca47fe26ca2d2807aa4afa600bc123711b2fc63903209d12ed245d724c1b776"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.18349",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}