Pith Number

pith:MOS273AN

pith:1997:MOS273ANCB54UDECTAGQAVKBZ2

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Topological Interpretations of Lattice Gauge Field Theory

Charles Frohman, Doug Bullock, Joanna Kania-Bartoszy\'nska

arxiv:q-alg/9710003 v1 · 1997-10-01 · q-alg · math.QA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MOS273ANCB54UDECTAGQAVKBZ2}

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:09:14.479244Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

63a5afec0d107bca0c82980d005541ce9e80e0a1561ecbf1ceed74da8442ea0f

Aliases

arxiv: q-alg/9710003 · arxiv_version: q-alg/9710003v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.q-alg/9710003 · pith_short_12: MOS273ANCB54 · pith_short_16: MOS273ANCB54UDEC · pith_short_8: MOS273AN

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/MOS273ANCB54UDECTAGQAVKBZ2 \
  | 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: 63a5afec0d107bca0c82980d005541ce9e80e0a1561ecbf1ceed74da8442ea0f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e5bc2b326b12d5751208fbe42d547513724dc1a42a7769700f2807a6af06f9e8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.QA"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "q-alg",
    "submitted_at": "1997-10-01T20:11:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "259824940ff4176eb17ce57921da69ab4da0d974ec6f2f591f58692bcb3b97cd"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "q-alg/9710003",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}