Pith Number

pith:55HLMI6R

pith:1997:55HLMI6RRYP4Y5YIPLWQFKV3PK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Dual BRST symmetry for QED

Calcutta), R. P. Malik (Bose Centre

arxiv:hep-th/9711056 v4 · 1997-11-09 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{55HLMI6RRYP4Y5YIPLWQFKV3PK}

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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.

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1 paper in Pith

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T04:17:27.491050Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ef4eb623d18e1fcc77087aed02aabb7aa2b95bc3d545cf2f417553d36619f367

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9711056 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9711056v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9711056 · pith_short_12: 55HLMI6RRYP4 · pith_short_16: 55HLMI6RRYP4Y5YI · pith_short_8: 55HLMI6R

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/55HLMI6RRYP4Y5YIPLWQFKV3PK \
  | 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: ef4eb623d18e1fcc77087aed02aabb7aa2b95bc3d545cf2f417553d36619f367

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c68b7380927db8c93d5e9ec949dbe6499abf4b9fb6dcf7229bd71e0451972555",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1997-11-09T18:36:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3606cd670b824eb7b19a50f619c9a7af5b6105c4b195d47e3cefa6f3cf43d142"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9711056",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}