Pith Number

pith:5PNO2V4Z

pith:1998:5PNO2V4ZWAQNZCV7CQWBRBO3NJ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Theory of Abelian Projection

Michael C. Ogilvie (Washington University)

arxiv:hep-lat/9806018 v3 · 1998-06-18 · hep-lat · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5PNO2V4ZWAQNZCV7CQWBRBO3NJ}

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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	2026-05-18T01:08:06.021065Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ebdaed5799b020dc8abf142c1885db6a6aeee8c53b2be47c033a5d493eca25b9

Aliases

arxiv: hep-lat/9806018 · arxiv_version: hep-lat/9806018v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-lat/9806018 · pith_short_12: 5PNO2V4ZWAQN · pith_short_16: 5PNO2V4ZWAQNZCV7 · pith_short_8: 5PNO2V4Z

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/5PNO2V4ZWAQNZCV7CQWBRBO3NJ \
  | 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: ebdaed5799b020dc8abf142c1885db6a6aeee8c53b2be47c033a5d493eca25b9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c5791bc96553cf9744715de1cf3d127e7d945ff95cc65f40611d29b97b33ba32",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-lat",
    "submitted_at": "1998-06-18T15:21:08Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ccadaf1d860a4990938801dbe04381254a97e3370433426cdb22753a101e97ec"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-lat/9806018",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}