Pith Number

pith:IMTV45AT

pith:2011:IMTV45ATYSCWNXN7LB27WFATDG

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Balance Systems and the Variational Bicomplex

Serge Preston

arxiv:1101.5375 v2 · 2011-01-27 · math-ph · math.DG · math.MP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IMTV45ATYSCWNXN7LB27WFATDG}

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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	2026-05-18T04:18:34.530244Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

43275e7413c48566ddbf5875fb141319a96f107e00167671fc1ad2ae47ea58f2

Aliases

arxiv: 1101.5375 · arxiv_version: 1101.5375v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1101.5375 · pith_short_12: IMTV45ATYSCW · pith_short_16: IMTV45ATYSCWNXN7 · pith_short_8: IMTV45AT

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/IMTV45ATYSCWNXN7LB27WFATDG \
  | 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: 43275e7413c48566ddbf5875fb141319a96f107e00167671fc1ad2ae47ea58f2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b8eceac7da0221f2f32bcecf5d3731a260f8be31a81419f40b24be6ebe1ef668",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.DG",
      "math.MP"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2011-01-27T20:08:30Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7ee8db604874488de7db65d0a90a0058736bb9353d07e1450f45ad9336464d0e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1101.5375",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}