Pith Number

pith:RBPJR6OK

pith:2002:RBPJR6OKZFIKXWSOI2UQA476NZ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

BV Quantization of Topological Open Membranes

Christiaan Hofman, Jae-Suk Park

arxiv:hep-th/0209214 v2 · 2002-09-25 · hep-th · math.QA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RBPJR6OKZFIKXWSOI2UQA476NZ}

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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	2026-05-18T04:17:36.327111Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

885e98f9cac950abda4e46a90073fe6e67756ec49367217355a068e657b25ea4

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/0209214 · arxiv_version: hep-th/0209214v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0209214 · pith_short_12: RBPJR6OKZFIK · pith_short_16: RBPJR6OKZFIKXWSO · pith_short_8: RBPJR6OK

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/RBPJR6OKZFIKXWSOI2UQA476NZ \
  | 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: 885e98f9cac950abda4e46a90073fe6e67756ec49367217355a068e657b25ea4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "68e5602171d1917ed7c36915f7dce2ff95cc2120f266a518349a47200831863d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.QA"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2002-09-25T19:38:51Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c4a3ef6c3c4f9a4653ea6be5c25fd1a2b147ea53da39b742b7f866a8ed3ee43b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/0209214",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}