Pith Number

pith:F5BVJBBS

pith:1995:F5BVJBBSYWKGJNPB4KJJ5GSP24

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Topological BF Theories in 3 and 4 Dimensions

Aberto S. Cattaneo, Juerg Froehlich, Maurizio Martellini, Paolo Cotta-Ramusino

arxiv:hep-th/9505027 v2 · 1995-05-04 · hep-th · math.QA · q-alg

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{F5BVJBBSYWKGJNPB4KJJ5GSP24}

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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	2026-05-18T04:38:05.210644Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2f43548432c59464b5e1e2929e9a4fd72bc5b6bd539bd1fb6528f8e51b3c33db

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9505027 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9505027v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9505027 · pith_short_12: F5BVJBBSYWKG · pith_short_16: F5BVJBBSYWKGJNPB · pith_short_8: F5BVJBBS

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/F5BVJBBSYWKGJNPB4KJJ5GSP24 \
  | 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: 2f43548432c59464b5e1e2929e9a4fd72bc5b6bd539bd1fb6528f8e51b3c33db

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e3f814d62b7c1d96e2f452cbe3b76a19c631157d5622d331298c299f71216f87",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.QA",
      "q-alg"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1995-05-04T20:10:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1414a8b26fab220f4a855c7ba7854147b18ae6ba9b2dda54a1a04c3be224e21b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9505027",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}