Pith Number

pith:M5NLIOED

pith:1997:M5NLIOED6DRY3U3UUGSGXI3LTB

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Anyon Statistics and the Witten Index

Donald Spector

arxiv:hep-th/9707147 v2 · 1997-07-16 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{M5NLIOED6DRY3U3UUGSGXI3LTB}

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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	2026-05-18T04:15:37.081060Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

675ab43883f0e38dd374a1a46ba36b987b1e4fbfe9d0953f0ad28079a6d2c1fa

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9707147 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9707147v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9707147 · pith_short_12: M5NLIOED6DRY · pith_short_16: M5NLIOED6DRY3U3U · pith_short_8: M5NLIOED

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/M5NLIOED6DRY3U3UUGSGXI3LTB \
  | 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: 675ab43883f0e38dd374a1a46ba36b987b1e4fbfe9d0953f0ad28079a6d2c1fa

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3a5af0c0174ddf00b000d65b487bc3f42cf211b0a6f1f8fd3b2a52b386f44677",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1997-07-16T18:38:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "314c1c0c9f004b468c8f85bcd1a155021db5ea67edb88976c41b5e80fee5d5c1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9707147",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}