Pith Number

pith:3LGAN4AR

pith:1998:3LGAN4ARKGO3QIDIRJ2HF2TRLK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Anti-de Sitter Space and the Center of the Gauge Group

Edward Witten, Ofer Aharony

arxiv:hep-th/9807205 v1 · 1998-07-28 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3LGAN4ARKGO3QIDIRJ2HF2TRLK}

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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.

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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-04T17:25:47.296105Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

dacc06f011519db820688a7472ea715a8b36566feffe5d7f4a513412fbf79748

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9807205 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9807205v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9807205 · pith_short_12: 3LGAN4ARKGO3 · pith_short_16: 3LGAN4ARKGO3QIDI · pith_short_8: 3LGAN4AR

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/3LGAN4ARKGO3QIDIRJ2HF2TRLK \
  | 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: dacc06f011519db820688a7472ea715a8b36566feffe5d7f4a513412fbf79748

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cac9b77d9c0a0e89843ab8c9dae25b617a4a7e06fc3d64a40b24d1dc3361a085",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1998-07-28T15:34:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "adadd04c6e9dd324cf85e7b1422e5ebcaa8c3786d03aa68c4993680ba66b6b5f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9807205",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}