Pith Number

pith:OCN5C5UW

pith:2026:OCN5C5UWQFEKX425PGEI5R56PC

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

An effective field theory approach to the sign problem in BFSS

Gauri Batra, Haifeng Tang, Henry W. Lin

arxiv:2606.18396 v1 · 2026-06-16 · hep-th · hep-lat · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{OCN5C5UWQFEKX425PGEI5R56PC}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications 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	2026-06-19T16:11:00.247822Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

709bd176968148abf35d79888ec7be78813fa6d78d603b52a1bb7dbeae3e5aaa

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.18396 · arxiv_version: 2606.18396v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.18396 · pith_short_12: OCN5C5UWQFEK · pith_short_16: OCN5C5UWQFEKX425 · pith_short_8: OCN5C5UW

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/OCN5C5UWQFEKX425PGEI5R56PC \
  | 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: 709bd176968148abf35d79888ec7be78813fa6d78d603b52a1bb7dbeae3e5aaa

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8363e6d33282820a03dadbcd864179c4317de5c0a7fd0b3b72852440e87f8513",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-lat",
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-16T18:38:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2c467874f91599233286bb9e1adcda6ed56d1e11a1b522c1e4eb58d752b99364"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.18396",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}