Pith Number

pith:Z5AMJ5LB

pith:2018:Z5AMJ5LBNPJMMYJTQ3RJTFCWIB

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

String-like theory as solution to the sign problem of a finite density gauge theory

Kurt Langfeld

arxiv:1811.12921 v1 · 2018-11-30 · hep-lat · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Z5AMJ5LBNPJMMYJTQ3RJTFCWIB}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-17T23:59:28.153177Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cf40c4f5616bd2c6613386e2999456405ff362351846694dd69fc0b0e38458c5

Aliases

arxiv: 1811.12921 · arxiv_version: 1811.12921v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1811.12921 · pith_short_12: Z5AMJ5LBNPJM · pith_short_16: Z5AMJ5LBNPJMMYJT · pith_short_8: Z5AMJ5LB

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/Z5AMJ5LBNPJMMYJTQ3RJTFCWIB \
  | 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: cf40c4f5616bd2c6613386e2999456405ff362351846694dd69fc0b0e38458c5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0d8498e827436e7d53d4f8d16e8bed6634681786622a40754758f4487643ef50",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-lat",
    "submitted_at": "2018-11-30T18:13:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a3bdee50100c51411034333e6bdd5e43bb5ad368f53c332792b6785fe3f92e3a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1811.12921",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}