Pith Number

pith:YCVPJPYC

pith:2026:YCVPJPYCUR5QG2K2MJYJWSXIVS

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

On divergences in a four-derivative scalar field theory

Franz Herzog, Maegan Anderson, Neil Turok, Sam Bateman

arxiv:2608.12210 v1 · 2026-08-12 · hep-th · gr-qc

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YCVPJPYCUR5QG2K2MJYJWSXIVS}

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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	2026-08-13T01:30:30.872213Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c0aaf4bf02a47b03695a62709b4ae8acb631c0b3cae40869b7a205623ca33f18

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.12210 · arxiv_version: 2608.12210v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.12210 · pith_short_12: YCVPJPYCUR5Q · pith_short_16: YCVPJPYCUR5QG2K2 · pith_short_8: YCVPJPYC

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/YCVPJPYCUR5QG2K2MJYJWSXIVS \
  | 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: c0aaf4bf02a47b03695a62709b4ae8acb631c0b3cae40869b7a205623ca33f18

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b5fcdf097690b113a73caedc09f980313036358d982893ae6efc7f5c1c9fba6a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-12T16:03:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "792ed2897438e722f903492593d6d5f3a7c3ac843f32479e4be2b029dac8d98e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.12210",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}