Pith Number

pith:H45UIRQD

pith:2002:H45UIRQDIIPUVVOHQJZR6BNU3Z

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Sphalerons, knots, and dynamical compactification in Yang-Mills-Chern-Simon theories

John M. Cornwall, Noah Graham

arxiv:hep-th/0205257 v1 · 2002-05-24 · hep-th · hep-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{H45UIRQDIIPUVVOHQJZR6BNU3Z}

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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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First computed	2026-05-18T02:36:05.284262Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3f3b444603421f4ad5c782731f05b4de50a674a540690d829c331dba0e3b7bfd

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/0205257 · arxiv_version: hep-th/0205257v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0205257 · pith_short_12: H45UIRQDIIPU · pith_short_16: H45UIRQDIIPUVVOH · pith_short_8: H45UIRQD

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/H45UIRQDIIPUVVOHQJZR6BNU3Z \
  | 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: 3f3b444603421f4ad5c782731f05b4de50a674a540690d829c331dba0e3b7bfd

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "dd6e8d4cccfc9cfad37c1fff2d53ec511f5aa561936f955ef828a97ffbd99987",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-ph"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2002-05-24T17:55:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "27d63517727ac18fe041815b321a32a0d184826bc752facaedb03d32cfc32344"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/0205257",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}