Pith Number

pith:P6CHCXXD

pith:2013:P6CHCXXDEZU3EMZNHROKSBZ3QH

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Manifest causality in quantum field theory with sources and detectors

Brian Cox, Jeff Forshaw, Peter Millington, Robert Dickinson

arxiv:1312.3871 v3 · 2013-12-13 · hep-th · hep-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{P6CHCXXDEZU3EMZNHROKSBZ3QH}

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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	2026-05-18T02:49:45.757951Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7f84715ee32669b2332d3c5ca9073b81f5cc1d54a7f54630bab018d63d3b1588

Aliases

arxiv: 1312.3871 · arxiv_version: 1312.3871v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1312.3871 · pith_short_12: P6CHCXXDEZU3 · pith_short_16: P6CHCXXDEZU3EMZN · pith_short_8: P6CHCXXD

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/P6CHCXXDEZU3EMZNHROKSBZ3QH \
  | 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: 7f84715ee32669b2332d3c5ca9073b81f5cc1d54a7f54630bab018d63d3b1588

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b98071790d5bb42e05a773af6bdb56c62975f7cfbdb46cd6aa14d7b3318ad94e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2013-12-13T16:50:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "19f0bc6a20bcd368c7f3806ba552a284103a10b4c553369d6227c36f9662d9e9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1312.3871",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}