Pith Number

pith:4CEUIAZU

pith:2003:4CEUIAZUT3JKKQYH6IKP5WBZFK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Higher gauge theory -- differential versus integral formulation

Florian Girelli, Hendryk Pfeiffer

arxiv:hep-th/0309173 v2 · 2003-09-17 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4CEUIAZUT3JKKQYH6IKP5WBZFK}

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Record completeness

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-04T15:17:49.021937Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e0894403349ed2a54307f214fed8392a8befbcb5e8b9f80fe61bd8dce836ab5b

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/0309173 · arxiv_version: hep-th/0309173v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0309173 · pith_short_12: 4CEUIAZUT3JK · pith_short_16: 4CEUIAZUT3JKKQYH · pith_short_8: 4CEUIAZU

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/4CEUIAZUT3JKKQYH6IKP5WBZFK \
  | 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: e0894403349ed2a54307f214fed8392a8befbcb5e8b9f80fe61bd8dce836ab5b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "39f0911b85e2365775cebb46154fc6a455c09fa4566574e57239a48bb2c47ff5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2003-09-17T19:47:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "aa0438d56b936a200da889455f1fb219e045a3a7a67a5cbc2d97174aa95c0204"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/0309173",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}