Pith Number

pith:4KGAKIOH

pith:1999:4KGAKIOHJK75WMC6MQ7ZPTZOWF

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Three-dimensional topological quantum field theory of Witten type

Boguslaw Broda, Malgorzata Bakalarska

arxiv:hep-th/9903177 v1 · 1999-03-21 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4KGAKIOHJK75WMC6MQ7ZPTZOWF}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T01:38:35.150155Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e28c0521c74abfdb305e643f97cf2eb1654db37629b65540a321eae7c77b0cfc

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9903177 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9903177v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9903177 · pith_short_12: 4KGAKIOHJK75 · pith_short_16: 4KGAKIOHJK75WMC6 · pith_short_8: 4KGAKIOH

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/4KGAKIOHJK75WMC6MQ7ZPTZOWF \
  | 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: e28c0521c74abfdb305e643f97cf2eb1654db37629b65540a321eae7c77b0cfc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7aef8f078af04e6de0498777110860fc3d3b39a43d2a52615874190a4f732cdf",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1999-03-21T08:13:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fbe6a7d524c9d0db0862ab6743bcd1688d1d140d217b7e6fd93eb63c0dd125a5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9903177",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}