Pith Number

pith:4JKPJWOJ

pith:1993:4JKPJWOJPEMZSNHLPMHZG3PBGS

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A categorical construction of 4D TQFTs

David N. Yetter, Louis Crane

arxiv:hep-th/9301062 v1 · 1993-01-15 · hep-th · math.QA

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First computed	2026-07-04T15:08:51.178435Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e254f4d9c979199934eb7b0f936de134be36153659d6e53b63ff66b2e4b011fa

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9301062 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9301062v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9301062 · pith_short_12: 4JKPJWOJPEMZ · pith_short_16: 4JKPJWOJPEMZSNHL · pith_short_8: 4JKPJWOJ

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/4JKPJWOJPEMZSNHLPMHZG3PBGS \
  | 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: e254f4d9c979199934eb7b0f936de134be36153659d6e53b63ff66b2e4b011fa

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "32b7e72e6603e56aa1f8c61845dbd37288ee37f33ee4bcbc147fe8745b49dcc1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.QA"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1993-01-15T20:36:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cfcb65023eb9fbe6afcf0c1a775a261521036bfffde6d3df101dcd7099bbc5b7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9301062",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}