Pith Number

pith:LQOGH5JZ

pith:1998:LQOGH5JZIIOBT2OCPIIHWZ7SOJ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Nonlocal electrodynamics in 2+1 dimensions from Chern-Simons theory

Qiong-gui Lin

arxiv:hep-th/9807177 v1 · 1998-07-23 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LQOGH5JZIIOBT2OCPIIHWZ7SOJ}

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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	2026-05-18T00:25:46.115071Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5c1c63f539421c19e9c27a107b67f27265052db2572f127e084cbca898598037

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9807177 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9807177v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9807177 · pith_short_12: LQOGH5JZIIOB · pith_short_16: LQOGH5JZIIOBT2OC · pith_short_8: LQOGH5JZ

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/LQOGH5JZIIOBT2OCPIIHWZ7SOJ \
  | 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: 5c1c63f539421c19e9c27a107b67f27265052db2572f127e084cbca898598037

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "327f09b358a9f6462a3a574182c207c8d7be7166761123411e8e81ab552ecea6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1998-07-23T04:29:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0e231e25a173919e6b6c62c14154d48b4824ce08f7a304dcbaf42e7358afa88b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9807177",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}