Pith Number

pith:I5NYY3C4

pith:2011:I5NYY3C4TGI4WEMTESW3NCEMAI

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Gauge Invariance from a Graphical Self-Consistency Criterion

Michael Silberstein, Timothy McDevitt, W.M. Stuckey

arxiv:1106.3339 v1 · 2011-06-16 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{I5NYY3C4TGI4WEMTESW3NCEMAI}

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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	2026-05-18T03:48:59.595987Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

475b8c6c5c9991cb119324adb6888c021023671086cf4ddebbc54d5d2db156f3

Aliases

arxiv: 1106.3339 · arxiv_version: 1106.3339v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1106.3339 · pith_short_12: I5NYY3C4TGI4 · pith_short_16: I5NYY3C4TGI4WEMT · pith_short_8: I5NYY3C4

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/I5NYY3C4TGI4WEMTESW3NCEMAI \
  | 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: 475b8c6c5c9991cb119324adb6888c021023671086cf4ddebbc54d5d2db156f3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7e8d6ccf84e638907673b119801104f7e4da7c4954d00b54865c6d3534617d5c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2011-06-16T20:04:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "88919cb60ba0632c0ea3a98f04f37ef05ecc5fcd3ea53b31968ab1af33d8dcb3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1106.3339",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}