Pith Number

pith:IJ2BMO72

pith:1996:IJ2BMO72PBOWOCP3IK4EOC23AC

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Magnetic monopole loop for the Yang-Mills instanton

Chung-I Tan (Brown Un.), Kostas N. Orginos, Richard C. Brower (BU/MIT)

arxiv:hep-th/9610101 v1 · 1996-10-15 · hep-th · hep-lat

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IJ2BMO72PBOWOCP3IK4EOC23AC}

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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	2026-05-18T02:36:03.024963Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4274163bfa785d6709fb42b8470b5b008df9138e79218a03cda0fa29176dddbc

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9610101 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9610101v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9610101 · pith_short_12: IJ2BMO72PBOW · pith_short_16: IJ2BMO72PBOWOCP3 · pith_short_8: IJ2BMO72

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/IJ2BMO72PBOWOCP3IK4EOC23AC \
  | 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: 4274163bfa785d6709fb42b8470b5b008df9138e79218a03cda0fa29176dddbc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "303347088f7b3fd60792292ee2d4668b39bba34389cc1b6f51b4a8fd99fb74c2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-lat"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1996-10-15T17:03:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "45a4f94a15389d8f45b0447c313894004fe50760753549905cc66c8f15297194"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9610101",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}