Pith Number

pith:VTQWYP2Y

pith:2016:VTQWYP2YWWHZAC5C6DWG66RHCR

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Introduction to chiral symmetry in QCD

H. Sazdjian

arxiv:1612.04078 v1 · 2016-12-13 · hep-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VTQWYP2YWWHZAC5C6DWG66RHCR}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T00:47:48.896720Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ace16c3f58b58f900ba2f0ec6f7a27147c23ec36ce12642ada40383be6de4de2

Aliases

arxiv: 1612.04078 · arxiv_version: 1612.04078v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1612.04078 · pith_short_12: VTQWYP2YWWHZ · pith_short_16: VTQWYP2YWWHZAC5C · pith_short_8: VTQWYP2Y

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/VTQWYP2YWWHZAC5C6DWG66RHCR \
  | 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: ace16c3f58b58f900ba2f0ec6f7a27147c23ec36ce12642ada40383be6de4de2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9139411987fdd4a5859935cb8d744796716229dea9edd0e8c24ddb2a0d0517d4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-12-13T10:03:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d6ba7a1f45d6dae7114b074b8efb65a0891022de94020af9a996d53f446631e2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1612.04078",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}