Pith Number

pith:OIW2WDAD

pith:2016:OIW2WDAD3B22AJKJCNX6WT4N4F

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Non-existence of natural states for Abelian Chern-Simons theory

Alexander Schenkel, Claudio Dappiaggi, Simone Murro

arxiv:1612.04080 v2 · 2016-12-13 · math-ph · hep-th · math.MP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{OIW2WDAD3B22AJKJCNX6WT4N4F}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:50:35.239856Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

722dab0c03d875a02549136feb4f8de1633ba2e521876366db82ea32a0607c1f

Aliases

arxiv: 1612.04080 · arxiv_version: 1612.04080v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1612.04080 · pith_short_12: OIW2WDAD3B22 · pith_short_16: OIW2WDAD3B22AJKJ · pith_short_8: OIW2WDAD

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/OIW2WDAD3B22AJKJCNX6WT4N4F \
  | 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: 722dab0c03d875a02549136feb4f8de1633ba2e521876366db82ea32a0607c1f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6a4efdcb1c020c2964915f9404cc7499187079b79fb8280d8b9f06df7616b41d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-th",
      "math.MP"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-12-13T10:11:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d9e1e52a9be6e8189e18fc1f5946d8c91688d1e8291a2c22649e338b6db27612"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1612.04080",
    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}