Pith Number

pith:PJLEN62X

pith:1999:PJLEN62XTZI3XZHMDDUMRQTEQE

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

On symmetries of Chern-Simons and BF topological theories

Alexander D. Popov, Tatiana A. Ivanova

arxiv:hep-th/9908177 v3 · 1999-08-27 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PJLEN62XTZI3XZHMDDUMRQTEQE}

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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	2026-05-18T00:51:07.860082Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7a5646fb579e51bbe4ec18e8c8c2648109c8a6d3963ceca88e7a5c6951e9f547

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9908177 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9908177v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9908177 · pith_short_12: PJLEN62XTZI3 · pith_short_16: PJLEN62XTZI3XZHM · pith_short_8: PJLEN62X

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/PJLEN62XTZI3XZHMDDUMRQTEQE \
  | 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: 7a5646fb579e51bbe4ec18e8c8c2648109c8a6d3963ceca88e7a5c6951e9f547

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "dce6c2970130b806a1e67aeec1b5d691c9dfb69fd57082f73aad18faafa5200d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1999-08-27T06:49:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d36ef7b3f815f60f6c960575291123bb383de1c3069a295ac865632cbd6cf023"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9908177",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}