Pith Number

pith:YR2IYXTB

pith:1997:YR2IYXTBWVGD6GSP7AWZ4NQY2F

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

THE QCD ABACUS: A New Formulation for Lattice Gauge Theories

Richard C. Brower

arxiv:hep-lat/9711027 v1 · 1997-11-15 · hep-lat

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YR2IYXTBWVGD6GSP7AWZ4NQY2F}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-07-04T14:27:17.693690Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c4748c5e61b54c3f1a4ff82d9e3618d173bd6b14ff1acbb12be3c8863ebc1fb4

Aliases

arxiv: hep-lat/9711027 · arxiv_version: hep-lat/9711027v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-lat/9711027 · pith_short_12: YR2IYXTBWVGD · pith_short_16: YR2IYXTBWVGD6GSP · pith_short_8: YR2IYXTB

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/YR2IYXTBWVGD6GSP7AWZ4NQY2F \
  | 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: c4748c5e61b54c3f1a4ff82d9e3618d173bd6b14ff1acbb12be3c8863ebc1fb4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "27d890a60a790afc8145a96a39c5d706a79f519cd421e34b10e046f80e084aa3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-lat",
    "submitted_at": "1997-11-15T16:51:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2cd045f1be929cf5adcab412c24dca05678164c6c24abfb2812191dcb05a6889"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-lat/9711027",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}