Pith Number

pith:WZM2L57K

pith:1997:WZM2L57KMBLQ7YL3P7O4NBVNHW

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Quantization of a particle in a background Yang-Mills field

Yihren Wu

arxiv:quant-ph/9706040 v2 · 1997-06-18 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WZM2L57KMBLQ7YL3P7O4NBVNHW}

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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	2026-05-18T02:35:06.657005Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b659a5f7ea60570fe17b7fddc686ad3d962d6784779006fa27e6d75f67a9d99d

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/9706040 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/9706040v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/9706040 · pith_short_12: WZM2L57KMBLQ · pith_short_16: WZM2L57KMBLQ7YL3 · pith_short_8: WZM2L57K

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/WZM2L57KMBLQ7YL3P7O4NBVNHW \
  | 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: b659a5f7ea60570fe17b7fddc686ad3d962d6784779006fa27e6d75f67a9d99d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3939aec66bf058e5b628950f87503a1f0f9528cf43851cac8fd912d384b2b434",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1997-06-18T03:20:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fbbdd79dd9d0535bdd3f6fbe3122855307655db00ae218cce88e0f5b0a936da8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/9706040",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}