Pith Number

pith:PPXIZPQX

pith:1991:PPXIZPQXK7GMK7EI3ESDP3QGID

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Chern-Simons Theory with Finite Gauge Group

Daniel S. Freed, Frank Quinn

arxiv:hep-th/9111004 v3 · 1991-11-03 · hep-th · math.QA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PPXIZPQXK7GMK7EI3ESDP3QGID}

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4 Citations 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.

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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T04:37:44.374101Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7bee8cbe1757ccc57c88d92437ee0640d0a12c02089d28c06de330f7f0854a3d

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9111004 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9111004v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9111004 · pith_short_12: PPXIZPQXK7GM · pith_short_16: PPXIZPQXK7GMK7EI · pith_short_8: PPXIZPQX

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/PPXIZPQXK7GMK7EI3ESDP3QGID \
  | 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: 7bee8cbe1757ccc57c88d92437ee0640d0a12c02089d28c06de330f7f0854a3d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2956bfd448cc27e4e7ba922b6c89c62be16287f6bfb9dc2f79b0690a364a506b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.QA"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1991-11-03T21:50:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5059c6ab8edcdec312738bf841b5d145c070206c4db0b99b4c0dfc7db64f9b54"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9111004",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}