Pith Number

pith:6NSHESJG

pith:2012:6NSHESJGD5TYQGM66DNPGZWOMW

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Topological Wilson-loop area law manifested using a superposition of loops

Benni Reznik, Erez Zohar

arxiv:1208.1012 v2 · 2012-08-05 · quant-ph · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6NSHESJGD5TYQGM66DNPGZWOMW}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T03:27:13.924106Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f3647249261f6788199ef0daf366ce658f5eca2557fcbd4ece732e9e60f8f99f

Aliases

arxiv: 1208.1012 · arxiv_version: 1208.1012v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1208.1012 · pith_short_12: 6NSHESJGD5TY · pith_short_16: 6NSHESJGD5TYQGM6 · pith_short_8: 6NSHESJG

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/6NSHESJGD5TYQGM66DNPGZWOMW \
  | 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: f3647249261f6788199ef0daf366ce658f5eca2557fcbd4ece732e9e60f8f99f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "be3ecd6ec6d313087b827b8d27a9d8e1c3e6227deb6f61e4a5b35076c7830af9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-08-05T14:13:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "94e1625cc3742e4c2b8d576a72948877c125a17cba461b8ed637f4004bc8d26e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1208.1012",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}