Pith Number

pith:3TBRBCWW

pith:2016:3TBRBCWWSO6P3NKYS4QXRERMBS

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Higher Gauge Theory with String 2-Groups

Christian Saemann, Getachew Alemu Demessie

arxiv:1602.03441 v2 · 2016-02-10 · math-ph · hep-th · math.DG · math.MP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3TBRBCWWSO6P3NKYS4QXRERMBS}

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2 Internet Archive

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T00:19:47.906688Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

dcc3108ad693bcfdb558972178922c0c8af1f19b7c3f1526ea2b245d8c3bcd90

Aliases

arxiv: 1602.03441 · arxiv_version: 1602.03441v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1602.03441 · pith_short_12: 3TBRBCWWSO6P · pith_short_16: 3TBRBCWWSO6P3NKY · pith_short_8: 3TBRBCWW

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/3TBRBCWWSO6P3NKYS4QXRERMBS \
  | 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: dcc3108ad693bcfdb558972178922c0c8af1f19b7c3f1526ea2b245d8c3bcd90

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8e641b2291b41c31bb7b7def9f212326214acd94fd4556535a0501730b94d587",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-th",
      "math.DG",
      "math.MP"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-02-10T16:50:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "47ace23bdaed43ed95f9fe63b857f52e4a6bc8f096cb0ac8738e0f23f12f7f90"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1602.03441",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}