Pith Number

pith:3XJSYPIQ

pith:2004:3XJSYPIQ4BJZNEUKW3DFVFJFF4

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Higher Gauge Theory: 2-Connections on 2-Bundles

John Baez, Urs Schreiber

arxiv:hep-th/0412325 v1 · 2004-12-30 · hep-th

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\pithnumber{3XJSYPIQ4BJZNEUKW3DFVFJFF4}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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Operational total space theory of principal 2-bundles II: 2-connections and 1- and 2--gauge transformations

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-04T14:32:21.030791Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ddd32c3d10e05396928ab6c65a95252f2d5d1725898d49ed7173f66adfbd754c

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/0412325 · arxiv_version: hep-th/0412325v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0412325 · pith_short_12: 3XJSYPIQ4BJZ · pith_short_16: 3XJSYPIQ4BJZNEUK · pith_short_8: 3XJSYPIQ

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/3XJSYPIQ4BJZNEUKW3DFVFJFF4 \
  | 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: ddd32c3d10e05396928ab6c65a95252f2d5d1725898d49ed7173f66adfbd754c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c75bc2d2e071b6fb3120800d5008ac56aff809285f7b0d30ce07ba9afa750ec5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2004-12-30T10:30:51Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3d13fa0f106d430f2f7652d623b57f3504c95dd990e610cf600b7d5233b71476"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/0412325",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}