Pith Number

pith:VSHUPPE4

pith:1997:VSHUPPE4GQCSFHXDVTPM4HVTDY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Field Theory of Branching and Annihilating Random Walks

John L. Cardy, Uwe C. T\"auber (University of Oxford)

arxiv:cond-mat/9704160 v2 · 1997-04-18 · cond-mat.stat-mech

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VSHUPPE4GQCSFHXDVTPM4HVTDY}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:39:33.509617Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ac8f47bc9c3405229ee3acdece1eb31e18fb3bc89567e58d35b63ff80b2dbbc6

Aliases

arxiv: cond-mat/9704160 · arxiv_version: cond-mat/9704160v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.cond-mat/9704160 · pith_short_12: VSHUPPE4GQCS · pith_short_16: VSHUPPE4GQCSFHXD · pith_short_8: VSHUPPE4

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/VSHUPPE4GQCSFHXDVTPM4HVTDY \
  | 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: ac8f47bc9c3405229ee3acdece1eb31e18fb3bc89567e58d35b63ff80b2dbbc6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "df12a02f81f0edf9967d51d8edfa9681947ba8624e732aa3c0def69dc6b13680",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "cond-mat.stat-mech",
    "submitted_at": "1997-04-18T10:02:08Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a2c3b4bc53e318a3ce7a7290b5fe657f7e8cc588af408ee9af56c1774de29039"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "cond-mat/9704160",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}