Pith Number

pith:7J3MW4NA

pith:2018:7J3MW4NAXBJ66E746B35I725VW

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

First order formulation of the Yang-Mills theory in a background field

D. G. C. McKeon, F. T. Brandt, J. Frenkel

arxiv:1810.10672 v4 · 2018-10-25 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{7J3MW4NAXBJ66E746B35I725VW}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-07-04T23:58:55.971005Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

fa76cb71a0b853ef13fcf077d47f5dad9278d87f66274410038ad940e007ca8a

Aliases

arxiv: 1810.10672 · arxiv_version: 1810.10672v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1810.10672 · pith_short_12: 7J3MW4NAXBJ6 · pith_short_16: 7J3MW4NAXBJ66E74 · pith_short_8: 7J3MW4NA

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/7J3MW4NAXBJ66E746B35I725VW \
  | 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: fa76cb71a0b853ef13fcf077d47f5dad9278d87f66274410038ad940e007ca8a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9fa3a95cbcfd1d8e33293e4447ae7c70d92342518aebbb350d08d36ad3f2e172",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2018-10-25T01:05:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "93e0af4fe05f1855dc89a1b6c9fbd2232f8fcba59b3423fd06a19ae80dff3e84"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1810.10672",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}