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pith:E74ZFMM6

pith:2007:E74ZFMM6V6UMALAP6GVVTDSNP6

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Topological Higher Gauge Theory - from BF to BFCG theory

E. M. Popescu, F. Girelli, H. Pfeiffer

arxiv:0708.3051 v2 · 2007-08-22 · hep-th · gr-qc

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3-Crossed Module Structure in the Five-Dimensional Topological Axion Electrodynamics

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First computed	2026-07-04T15:24:36.450722Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

27f992b19eafa8c02c0ff1ab598e4d7fab48c662f92d10e9e9f17241322b604e

Aliases

arxiv: 0708.3051 · arxiv_version: 0708.3051v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0708.3051 · pith_short_12: E74ZFMM6V6UM · pith_short_16: E74ZFMM6V6UMALAP · pith_short_8: E74ZFMM6

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/E74ZFMM6V6UMALAP6GVVTDSNP6 \
  | 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: 27f992b19eafa8c02c0ff1ab598e4d7fab48c662f92d10e9e9f17241322b604e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "72091cfd3cc7a9a477af16767beb3961fb90d7cd04e41fa793ce23b5150f0139",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2007-08-22T16:44:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "710e84784130fc2728a8aba7901bf8ef8347df47c7db836381884bedc0da4b1c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0708.3051",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}