Pith Number

pith:YB34NWB5

pith:1996:YB34NWB5IESLGVBCJIBBFFPXYL

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Why Two Renormalization Groups are Better than One

C.R. Stephens (ICN, Mexico), UNAM

arxiv:hep-th/9611062 v1 · 1996-11-09 · hep-th · cond-mat

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YB34NWB5IESLGVBCJIBBFFPXYL}

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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	2026-05-18T04:24:15.746806Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c077c6d83d4124b354224a021295f7c2f903b3d4ef46db7c46f66fab241a4240

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9611062 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9611062v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9611062 · pith_short_12: YB34NWB5IESL · pith_short_16: YB34NWB5IESLGVBC · pith_short_8: YB34NWB5

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/YB34NWB5IESLGVBCJIBBFFPXYL \
  | 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: c077c6d83d4124b354224a021295f7c2f903b3d4ef46db7c46f66fab241a4240

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7aa170ea99999bfbff03595018fb6cbcddeece964202f94b62c5e00f35080d68",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cond-mat"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1996-11-09T01:24:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4d9f5b88597c05fbbf5e4ed70bc67f3252788f7665bf5b17a268aab10d6ef6fc"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9611062",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}