Pith Number

pith:5JYTFT66

pith:1991:5JYTFT66LDOL2H63MMQDS6FUFJ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Quantum Field Theory of Nonabelian Strings and Vortices

John March-Russell, John Preskill, Kai-Ming Lee, Mark Alford

arxiv:hep-th/9112038 v1 · 1991-12-17 · hep-th

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\pithnumber{5JYTFT66LDOL2H63MMQDS6FUFJ}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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Lectures on Generalized Symmetries

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-04T15:55:00.327334Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ea7132cfde58dcbd1fdb63203978b42a53e0a56ac6b6e829fcd542438e0c9d25

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9112038 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9112038v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9112038 · pith_short_12: 5JYTFT66LDOL · pith_short_16: 5JYTFT66LDOL2H63 · pith_short_8: 5JYTFT66

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/5JYTFT66LDOL2H63MMQDS6FUFJ \
  | 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: ea7132cfde58dcbd1fdb63203978b42a53e0a56ac6b6e829fcd542438e0c9d25

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0b4b3d2644ef6fda1b8340e34f85128570c54442d799478b10de54c47ddc4dd5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1991-12-17T01:54:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f1651dfe718bfb7eaff32eb2c02abd2a0b58ca04de25a375f6dab0741aa0e6ea"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9112038",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}