Pith Number

pith:XDZN2US3

pith:1999:XDZN2US3ZMWIPFWEENKVHPGHG2

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Probing the Boundary of the Non-Perturbative QCD by Small Size Instantons

E.V. Shuryak

arxiv:hep-ph/9909458 v1 · 1999-09-21 · hep-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XDZN2US3ZMWIPFWEENKVHPGHG2}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T01:06:05.466123Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b8f2dd525bcb2c8796c4235553bcc736b93eadd50ae38538a22972b1de61b690

Aliases

arxiv: hep-ph/9909458 · arxiv_version: hep-ph/9909458v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/9909458 · pith_short_12: XDZN2US3ZMWI · pith_short_16: XDZN2US3ZMWIPFWE · pith_short_8: XDZN2US3

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/XDZN2US3ZMWIPFWEENKVHPGHG2 \
  | 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: b8f2dd525bcb2c8796c4235553bcc736b93eadd50ae38538a22972b1de61b690

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c4c02d065f8096c2d1a0772bbe747a2c9da72d35ad525f580be8c3c3e06abf75",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1999-09-21T18:33:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a0ce11e54183b344b88ba1b7fa6e137ce4cddb98643178fdc3b5590c19e84749"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-ph/9909458",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}