Pith Number

pith:BS5JSY2S

pith:2016:BS5JSY2S5FHOJTMNMYYPQBJB35

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

BRST Symmetry: Boundary Conditions and Edge States in QED

A. P. Balachandran, Nirmalendu Acharyya, P. N. Bala Subramanian, Sachindeo Vaidya, Ver\'onica Errasti D\'iez

arxiv:1604.03696 v3 · 2016-04-13 · hep-th · cond-mat.other · cond-mat.supr-con · math-ph · math.MP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BS5JSY2S5FHOJTMNMYYPQBJB35}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T01:00:45.748605Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0cba996352e94ee4cd8d6630f80521df7ad5888a0fe3678f2cf06d8e63399e88

Aliases

arxiv: 1604.03696 · arxiv_version: 1604.03696v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1604.03696 · pith_short_12: BS5JSY2S5FHO · pith_short_16: BS5JSY2S5FHOJTMN · pith_short_8: BS5JSY2S

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/BS5JSY2S5FHOJTMNMYYPQBJB35 \
  | 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: 0cba996352e94ee4cd8d6630f80521df7ad5888a0fe3678f2cf06d8e63399e88

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "32b168558b846ba7e3e12c0b5679afb36df396802954dcdd306668792f5c37aa",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cond-mat.other",
      "cond-mat.supr-con",
      "math-ph",
      "math.MP"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2016-04-13T08:51:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c2b2abeac73b993e5a1a95e61baafd90533469dd3386bc00dcb6a8f24e968a31"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1604.03696",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}