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pith:XI7XUGJS

pith:2006:XI7XUGJSAYA6PDS4UXOQAWMACG
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Solution to the ghost problem in fourth order derivative theories

Philip D. Mannheim (University of Connecticut)

arxiv:hep-th/0608154 v2 · 2006-08-22 · hep-th

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Schema pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ba3f7a19320601e78e5ca5dd00598011a7eecd9334a3b9267bbdd59b856977c9

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/0608154 · arxiv_version: hep-th/0608154v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0608154 · pith_short_12: XI7XUGJSAYA6 · pith_short_16: XI7XUGJSAYA6PDS4 · pith_short_8: XI7XUGJS
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Verify this Pith Number yourself
curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/XI7XUGJSAYA6PDS4UXOQAWMACG \
  | 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: ba3f7a19320601e78e5ca5dd00598011a7eecd9334a3b9267bbdd59b856977c9
Canonical record JSON
{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "251a066d7120d623feaca3e12901f6b6318032097a9eba42539b9bbb26ba11e9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2006-08-22T15:04:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1f4b24d804c1be00ce169c596d62b2fea0d0e9ddfd2ffe038e95d8917154fe81"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}