Pith Number

pith:3JNM2UR7

pith:1995:3JNM2UR7N27B2IRAWCOHK4UTIN

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Cooling and the SU(2) Instanton Vaccuum

C. Michael, P.S. Spencer

arxiv:hep-lat/9503018 v2 · 1995-03-16 · hep-lat

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3JNM2UR7N27B2IRAWCOHK4UTIN}

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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	2026-05-18T01:06:38.383230Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

da5acd523f6ebe1d2220b09c757293437c4907a9f30bf33c98ec60f7e3fa0774

Aliases

arxiv: hep-lat/9503018 · arxiv_version: hep-lat/9503018v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-lat/9503018 · pith_short_12: 3JNM2UR7N27B · pith_short_16: 3JNM2UR7N27B2IRA · pith_short_8: 3JNM2UR7

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/3JNM2UR7N27B2IRAWCOHK4UTIN \
  | 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: da5acd523f6ebe1d2220b09c757293437c4907a9f30bf33c98ec60f7e3fa0774

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b6e1154fd9445730bbd1fea22433d10fb72a308a4ab6fc910b909e38d0b874d6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-lat",
    "submitted_at": "1995-03-16T09:11:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "95fe86ef08191e03892b898319367b8c7d4ed4d992f99b18eabaeb79f58ab2e3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-lat/9503018",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}