Pith Number

pith:2V44RXAW

pith:1994:2V44RXAW7JY2JPKHTEGLKDOIYW

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Duality Principle and Braided Geometry

Shahn Majid

arxiv:hep-th/9409057 v1 · 1994-09-10 · hep-th · math.QA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2V44RXAW7JY2JPKHTEGLKDOIYW}

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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	2026-05-18T01:38:41.404054Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d579c8dc16fa71a4bd47990cb50dc8c5b4ba45130abe69c1a1b301f881fd8713

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9409057 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9409057v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9409057 · pith_short_12: 2V44RXAW7JY2 · pith_short_16: 2V44RXAW7JY2JPKH · pith_short_8: 2V44RXAW

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/2V44RXAW7JY2JPKHTEGLKDOIYW \
  | 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: d579c8dc16fa71a4bd47990cb50dc8c5b4ba45130abe69c1a1b301f881fd8713

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e372e37433e91d948e829b91774dad368853d9b8d44370183b2fb15a6d0e151c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.QA"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1994-09-10T23:14:55Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6cece5b52ee3c672a89d0e5356421da22dbd13cefa7e9cd403d4b97c62775cef"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9409057",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}