Pith Number

pith:2ARAC222

pith:2011:2ARAC222WY6Y3YBKWD3T7IBKB6

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

An action for higher spin gauge theory in four dimensions

Lee Smolin, Nima Doroud

arxiv:1102.3297 v1 · 2011-02-16 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2ARAC222WY6Y3YBKWD3T7IBKB6}

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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	2026-05-18T04:28:36.674957Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d022016b5ab63d8de02ab0f73fa02a0f98a86604e86dbea5aba13aace403f8e0

Aliases

arxiv: 1102.3297 · arxiv_version: 1102.3297v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1102.3297 · pith_short_12: 2ARAC222WY6Y · pith_short_16: 2ARAC222WY6Y3YBK · pith_short_8: 2ARAC222

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/2ARAC222WY6Y3YBKWD3T7IBKB6 \
  | 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: d022016b5ab63d8de02ab0f73fa02a0f98a86604e86dbea5aba13aace403f8e0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "53069e509cd5e203fb5c4a79ddb40251efb57c921aeb149ef4cd0fffb117379b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2011-02-16T10:55:56Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "36abb07e81ca23abfa548e09006d36f3ed3a50b755e2e527018f0329df445513"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1102.3297",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}