Pith Number

pith:AJIOMNSB

pith:2017:AJIOMNSBALG7YIKTK6ZFMOOTHO

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Intersection of world-lines on curved surfaces and path-ordering of the Wilson loop

Chris Curry, Paul Mansfield

arxiv:1712.04760 v2 · 2017-12-13 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{AJIOMNSBALG7YIKTK6ZFMOOTHO}

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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	2026-05-18T00:09:27.759976Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0250e6364102cdfc215357b25639d33ba4939733eedcc70a12977a5f22ea8bae

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.04760 · arxiv_version: 1712.04760v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.04760 · pith_short_12: AJIOMNSBALG7 · pith_short_16: AJIOMNSBALG7YIKT · pith_short_8: AJIOMNSB

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/AJIOMNSBALG7YIKTK6ZFMOOTHO \
  | 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: 0250e6364102cdfc215357b25639d33ba4939733eedcc70a12977a5f22ea8bae

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d3978cb3613b63df310f6510ca771cb6a0c043a27d9e3cb98f220218eb144a6b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-13T13:45:50Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1a207374688d1c35c091c59e37f5ea1b4a47ae9fa491d58fc4d6648996d7bafe"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.04760",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}