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pith:1998:ZCD4CE6C3U443XEO73VAMHEB6R
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The Operator Product Expansion for Wilson Loops and Surfaces in the Large N Limit

David Berenstein, Juan Maldacena (Harvard U.), Richard Corrado, Willy Fischler (UT Austin)

arxiv:hep-th/9809188 v1 · 1998-09-25 · hep-th

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Canonical hash

c887c113c2dd39cddc8efeea061c81f45cd242ccf29674cdc77e59d539952811

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arxiv: hep-th/9809188 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9809188v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9809188 · pith_short_12: ZCD4CE6C3U44 · pith_short_16: ZCD4CE6C3U443XEO · pith_short_8: ZCD4CE6C
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Verify this Pith Number yourself
curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/ZCD4CE6C3U443XEO73VAMHEB6R \
  | 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: c887c113c2dd39cddc8efeea061c81f45cd242ccf29674cdc77e59d539952811
Canonical record JSON
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  "metadata": {
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    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
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    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1998-09-25T20:44:50Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f0435438d61d0b4f37dc944d9711350abb49934e539526c23ca2eacb1e86d126"
  },
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  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
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