Pith Number

pith:Z324G3NK

pith:2008:Z324G3NKIDCFBP4DFWPJTBSDNM

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On the $\pi$ and $K$ as $q \bar q$ Bound States and Approximate Nambu-Goldstone Bosons

Robert Shrock, Shmuel Nussinov

arxiv:0811.3404 v1 · 2008-11-20 · hep-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Z324G3NKIDCFBP4DFWPJTBSDNM}

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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.

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First computed	2026-07-04T15:38:42.831981Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cef5c36daa40c450bf832d9e9986436b08d1be18c840c8b133b549769ccb3eb2

Aliases

arxiv: 0811.3404 · arxiv_version: 0811.3404v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0811.3404 · pith_short_12: Z324G3NKIDCF · pith_short_16: Z324G3NKIDCFBP4D · pith_short_8: Z324G3NK

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/Z324G3NKIDCFBP4DFWPJTBSDNM \
  | 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: cef5c36daa40c450bf832d9e9986436b08d1be18c840c8b133b549769ccb3eb2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8311940eb55b31118610d09390430bd6e80d73704fd2afd39d669e7803e277f5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2008-11-20T20:20:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "734c1c01f87e22f7d4b25e30c69d452ce2e5de363f513b3ae45f89c19b96d644"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0811.3404",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}