Pith Number

pith:3VFWBYQW

pith:1998:3VFWBYQW55F3C6DTLBDS2EIAWH

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A geometric generalization of field theory to manifolds of arbitrary dimension

Kay Joerg Wiese, Mehran Kardar

arxiv:cond-mat/9803279 v1 · 1998-03-23 · cond-mat · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3VFWBYQW55F3C6DTLBDS2EIAWH}

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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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First computed	2026-05-18T04:11:18.794148Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

dd4b60e216ef4bb1787358472d1100b1f66f4fc5ac49cacd797daf0b64f66379

Aliases

arxiv: cond-mat/9803279 · arxiv_version: cond-mat/9803279v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.cond-mat/9803279 · pith_short_12: 3VFWBYQW55F3 · pith_short_16: 3VFWBYQW55F3C6DT · pith_short_8: 3VFWBYQW

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/3VFWBYQW55F3C6DTLBDS2EIAWH \
  | 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: dd4b60e216ef4bb1787358472d1100b1f66f4fc5ac49cacd797daf0b64f66379

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6fca888a6b335d98927b017e9a999a00cdf082e9d844c8fe277b1267d1dad2bf",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "cond-mat",
    "submitted_at": "1998-03-23T18:47:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d0d9331c391982f33f8478c3e533353b7b4386a19a656f5670374c7cb7929337"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "cond-mat/9803279",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}