Pith Number

pith:BAN6XCTQ

pith:1996:BAN6XCTQSNVDODQRE7GKW65MUM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Genealogy of Nonperturbative Quantum-Invariants of 3-Manifolds: The Surgical Family

Thomas Kerler

arxiv:q-alg/9601021 v2 · 1996-01-21 · q-alg · hep-th · math.QA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BAN6XCTQSNVDODQRE7GKW65MUM}

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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	2026-05-18T01:05:07.561224Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

081beb8a70936a370e1127ccab7baca30d4891f4a4ed6d739eb39bc044c61051

Aliases

arxiv: q-alg/9601021 · arxiv_version: q-alg/9601021v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.q-alg/9601021 · pith_short_12: BAN6XCTQSNVD · pith_short_16: BAN6XCTQSNVDODQR · pith_short_8: BAN6XCTQ

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/BAN6XCTQSNVDODQRE7GKW65MUM \
  | 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: 081beb8a70936a370e1127ccab7baca30d4891f4a4ed6d739eb39bc044c61051

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1f5514239e1cebf54e397625be2117bc3c01889cfcef613a2eb4989fa2c68a17",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-th",
      "math.QA"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "q-alg",
    "submitted_at": "1996-01-21T02:36:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f6eeb76e5579103885ff23fdadb622ba619b7132efededc568927420e90a1ef1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "q-alg/9601021",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}