Pith Number

pith:BJSE3M4Z

pith:2023:BJSE3M4ZISJMZ4ZNAF6NA5NVOU

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From finite state automata to tangle cobordisms: a TQFT journey from one to four dimensions

Mee Seong Im, Mikhail Khovanov

arxiv:2309.00708 v2 · 2023-09-01 · math.QA · cs.FL · math-ph · math.CT · math.MP · math.RT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BJSE3M4ZISJMZ4ZNAF6NA5NVOU}

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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.

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Diagrammatics of information

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T06:51:29.071461Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0a644db3994492ccf32d017cd075b57512a04cd5872f238561f8aedb62516e6b

Aliases

arxiv: 2309.00708 · arxiv_version: 2309.00708v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2309.00708 · pith_short_12: BJSE3M4ZISJM · pith_short_16: BJSE3M4ZISJMZ4ZN · pith_short_8: BJSE3M4Z

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/BJSE3M4ZISJMZ4ZNAF6NA5NVOU \
  | 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: 0a644db3994492ccf32d017cd075b57512a04cd5872f238561f8aedb62516e6b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6badc4cd0d21971871c58146d78911c899de49f900d266452505b484d3693eda",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.FL",
      "math-ph",
      "math.CT",
      "math.MP",
      "math.RT"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.QA",
    "submitted_at": "2023-09-01T19:28:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "58b18ef30aed295383863303c1c41c7ee59a812ea0bf4660ad4bf2cd04784b00"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2309.00708",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}