Pith Number

pith:VKMFPHMA

pith:1994:VKMFPHMATU4RVBJEZDVKBMNO7C

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Bilocal Field Approach to the Large-N Expansion of Two-Dimensional (Gauge) Theories

M. Cavicchi

arxiv:hep-th/9401086 v1 · 1994-01-19 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VKMFPHMATU4RVBJEZDVKBMNO7C}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:38:42.099016Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

aa98579d809d391a8524c8eaa0b1aef882eb375e5e0aa8b139098cbee3b12e8f

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9401086 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9401086v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9401086 · pith_short_12: VKMFPHMATU4R · pith_short_16: VKMFPHMATU4RVBJE · pith_short_8: VKMFPHMA

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/VKMFPHMATU4RVBJEZDVKBMNO7C \
  | 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: aa98579d809d391a8524c8eaa0b1aef882eb375e5e0aa8b139098cbee3b12e8f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "946e028d914e1b45b968dd4824998db433aff8ff33f514b0b08ffae42bf36cfb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1994-01-19T15:22:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b062721ea2a5252345620c0ed7b9778668ff53b86b4558b92105eb4f8b102d51"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9401086",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}