Pith Number

pith:WSP4CPW7

pith:1997:WSP4CPW75H66I6EHNXPBLYIVC5

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Assumption of nonvanishingness of vacuum expectation of the scalar field for spontaneous symmetry breaking is superfluous

Yu Shi

arxiv:hep-th/9703013 v2 · 1997-03-02 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WSP4CPW75H66I6EHNXPBLYIVC5}

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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	2026-07-04T15:07:54.853644Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b49fc13edfe9fde478876dde15e11517438951c853a6ba65f25ff7ce392a73ec

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9703013 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9703013v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9703013 · pith_short_12: WSP4CPW75H66 · pith_short_16: WSP4CPW75H66I6EH · pith_short_8: WSP4CPW7

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/WSP4CPW75H66I6EHNXPBLYIVC5 \
  | 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: b49fc13edfe9fde478876dde15e11517438951c853a6ba65f25ff7ce392a73ec

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f46c4beda0ae4d9b96da1e6f56397b1490a9833b1381f52faef8ed7ebf07719c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1997-03-02T10:01:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8e9051b4b1cd9a64552ffdf00f56c4a3abab698af02f7dddc4cb7747df074f69"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9703013",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}