Pith Number

pith:AF6VFPDW

pith:2011:AF6VFPDWHN7ENVJ2RVNBRUR25N

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Non-Quadratic Gauge Fixing and Ghosts for Gauge Theories on the Hypersphere

D. G. C. McKeon, F. T. Brandt

arxiv:1110.1621 v1 · 2011-10-07 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{AF6VFPDWHN7ENVJ2RVNBRUR25N}

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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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First computed	2026-05-18T04:10:11.818062Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

017d52bc763b7e46d53a8d5a18d23aeb5ab76d5b071b6250889e8bfb49c2608f

Aliases

arxiv: 1110.1621 · arxiv_version: 1110.1621v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1110.1621 · pith_short_12: AF6VFPDWHN7E · pith_short_16: AF6VFPDWHN7ENVJ2 · pith_short_8: AF6VFPDW

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/AF6VFPDWHN7ENVJ2RVNBRUR25N \
  | 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: 017d52bc763b7e46d53a8d5a18d23aeb5ab76d5b071b6250889e8bfb49c2608f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "58cc93f6ddb1b633c85a280376a8fc42f64583ce039c5fab928399866d42ab39",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2011-10-07T19:48:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "38277ab666eb13bc6c8833310e74f93ab7fb228034d688bba860ad87d80c20a9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1110.1621",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}