Pith Number

pith:KGA5DUIX

pith:1994:KGA5DUIX7FW3YFAVNWU5QSAZVG

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

q-deformed Dirac Monopole With Arbitrary Charge

Chong-Sun Chu, Harold Steinacker, Pei-Ming Ho

arxiv:hep-th/9404023 v4 · 1994-04-05 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KGA5DUIX7FW3YFAVNWU5QSAZVG}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T01:38:41.920805Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5181d1d117f96dbc14156da9d84819a98d78cc89a06a2af9a29e0605ca889a1c

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9404023 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9404023v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9404023 · pith_short_12: KGA5DUIX7FW3 · pith_short_16: KGA5DUIX7FW3YFAV · pith_short_8: KGA5DUIX

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/KGA5DUIX7FW3YFAVNWU5QSAZVG \
  | 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: 5181d1d117f96dbc14156da9d84819a98d78cc89a06a2af9a29e0605ca889a1c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "15ba21f864191aa5806eb6d9f5a7748179f16c758310b71ca22fa6fd0c3c8858",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1994-04-05T22:00:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e2cadaf725234b6b52d0c98c44f751a06ae8a5c8d624ee122e8d6029c2f4266c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9404023",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}