Pith Number

pith:JZHKPWN2

pith:1998:JZHKPWN2VSBEI22RAAVSXRV7I7

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

On the Natural Gauge Fields of Manifolds

A. B. Pestov (BLTP, Bijan Saha (LIT, Dubna, JINR, JINR), Russia)

arxiv:hep-th/9807204 v2 · 1998-07-28 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JZHKPWN2VSBEI22RAAVSXRV7I7}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T04:35:15.789037Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4e4ea7d9baac82446b51002b2bc6bf47c68384602362b2d1a88588904bd5d393

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9807204 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9807204v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9807204 · pith_short_12: JZHKPWN2VSBE · pith_short_16: JZHKPWN2VSBEI22R · pith_short_8: JZHKPWN2

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/JZHKPWN2VSBEI22RAAVSXRV7I7 \
  | 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: 4e4ea7d9baac82446b51002b2bc6bf47c68384602362b2d1a88588904bd5d393

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "815e2e7be98fa80a1981e38849fa42ae5f1efcd9dd623ba3735e6964e3a4b857",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1998-07-28T15:13:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "31d6b7f7d0bdb440cda865006bce61d9782087886170b2694f747f16ce4b86dc"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9807204",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}