Pith Number

pith:N64JZ7SS

pith:2011:N64JZ7SS32TEVIDL4UEIUBKZEM

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Evading the sign problem in random matrix simulations

Jacques C.R. Bloch

arxiv:1111.4876 v1 · 2011-11-21 · hep-lat

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{N64JZ7SS32TEVIDL4UEIUBKZEM}

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4 Citations 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	2026-05-18T04:07:54.872330Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6fb89cfe52dea64aa06be5088a0559233d5f89199c4c5e21721c2c6f5a39768f

Aliases

arxiv: 1111.4876 · arxiv_version: 1111.4876v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1111.4876 · pith_short_12: N64JZ7SS32TE · pith_short_16: N64JZ7SS32TEVIDL · pith_short_8: N64JZ7SS

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/N64JZ7SS32TEVIDL4UEIUBKZEM \
  | 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: 6fb89cfe52dea64aa06be5088a0559233d5f89199c4c5e21721c2c6f5a39768f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2d5c244f28c665dfaa78d5d48496fa0a4d055192a7c6a256c0df76457cd2b440",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-lat",
    "submitted_at": "2011-11-21T14:10:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f23e2e6935f0fe43d1bd94e84090cd22e47881b54f7bb79ca90339197a5890c2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1111.4876",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}