Pith Number

pith:SQ62SK43

pith:2005:SQ62SK43LTSGQ2WEZDHFGUOYXF

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Higher Gauge Theory

John C. Baez, Urs Schreiber

arxiv:math/0511710 v2 · 2005-11-29 · math.DG · math.CT

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10 papers in Pith

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Higher Gauge Theory via Differential Nonabelian Cohomology

Operational total space theory of principal 2-bundles II: 2-connections and 1- and 2--gauge transformations

Discrete $p$-Form Symmetry and Higher Coulomb Phases

Symmetries and Higher-Form Connections in Derived Differential Geometry

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First computed	2026-07-04T15:11:53.144561Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

943da92b9b5ce4686ac4c8ce5351d8b97b0de982606f36bba6671f728d058dd7

Aliases

arxiv: math/0511710 · arxiv_version: math/0511710v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.math/0511710 · pith_short_12: SQ62SK43LTSG · pith_short_16: SQ62SK43LTSGQ2WE · pith_short_8: SQ62SK43

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/SQ62SK43LTSGQ2WEZDHFGUOYXF \
  | 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: 943da92b9b5ce4686ac4c8ce5351d8b97b0de982606f36bba6671f728d058dd7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "925ab8b3f4ab409c234ebbd400b9e68e7d93f0649463edbbb6151714867dd5fc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.CT"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "math.DG",
    "submitted_at": "2005-11-29T15:56:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6e9e0a5a3117ae9d443443751e8245a775d7387302c7bd9444aec3b1c5e14bf3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "math/0511710",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}