Pith Number

pith:42HZVR5E

pith:1998:42HZVR5ERQALRQQKWJ3IXHIZBX

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Early History of Gauge Theories and Kaluza-Klein Theories, with a Glance at Recent Developments

Lochlain O'Raifeartaigh (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), Norbert Straumann (University of Zuerich)

arxiv:hep-ph/9810524 v2 · 1998-10-29 · hep-ph · gr-qc · hep-th

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First computed	2026-07-04T14:30:49.561122Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e68f9ac7a48c00b8c20ab2768b9d190dfc889d128f20620b64930dfe68091dd8

Aliases

arxiv: hep-ph/9810524 · arxiv_version: hep-ph/9810524v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/9810524 · pith_short_12: 42HZVR5ERQAL · pith_short_16: 42HZVR5ERQALRQQK · pith_short_8: 42HZVR5E

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/42HZVR5ERQALRQQKWJ3IXHIZBX \
  | 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: e68f9ac7a48c00b8c20ab2768b9d190dfc889d128f20620b64930dfe68091dd8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d3d4829881af6b12b33647fda093363698ca28a6f9b5b511993edbc11fd63c58",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc",
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1998-10-29T14:39:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d5478fe061a755740c2f5b6c3087e2010cb11b5cb28a17f9c2f7bee66e421edc"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-ph/9810524",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}