Pith Number

pith:Y7BRG6XX

pith:2000:Y7BRG6XXNZQ3V25QDRENQRI3OX

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On the occurrence of mass in field theory

Giampiero Esposito

arxiv:hep-th/0008229 v9 · 2000-08-30 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Y7BRG6XXNZQ3V25QDRENQRI3OX}

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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	2026-05-18T01:26:39.978622Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c7c3137af76e61baebb01c48d8451b75d793ba639171ebecdef8af60d8553227

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/0008229 · arxiv_version: hep-th/0008229v9 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0008229 · pith_short_12: Y7BRG6XXNZQ3 · pith_short_16: Y7BRG6XXNZQ3V25Q · pith_short_8: Y7BRG6XX

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/Y7BRG6XXNZQ3V25QDRENQRI3OX \
  | 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: c7c3137af76e61baebb01c48d8451b75d793ba639171ebecdef8af60d8553227

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "dec628d8a7b62d2cf4ff0f2d8849ecd441d5252702ca30e270d14df3e13a6981",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2000-08-30T09:24:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "037c0125c0ea6039f4b314f3ef2f8453bc4d9cbd4e75a62c04315610974f630b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/0008229",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 9
  }
}