Pith Number

pith:URBYF6DR

pith:2012:URBYF6DRPZHWH3JCKLV6LOPFOS

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Non-abelian higher gauge theory and categorical bundle

David Viennot

arxiv:1202.2280 v4 · 2012-02-10 · math-ph · math.MP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{URBYF6DRPZHWH3JCKLV6LOPFOS}

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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	2026-05-18T01:02:05.494129Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a44382f8717e4f63ed2252ebe5b9e57494eeab713751c44918eb2d4936c76660

Aliases

arxiv: 1202.2280 · arxiv_version: 1202.2280v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1202.2280 · pith_short_12: URBYF6DRPZHW · pith_short_16: URBYF6DRPZHWH3JC · pith_short_8: URBYF6DR

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/URBYF6DRPZHWH3JCKLV6LOPFOS \
  | 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: a44382f8717e4f63ed2252ebe5b9e57494eeab713751c44918eb2d4936c76660

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6a7935d1e677069b4ef4c008674fb035e080121a43139f5f60bac94e554dc48a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.MP"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-02-10T15:12:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "04bcf33d3ddb1a3e403529d32dbd28bf675ff68aa88977fea99e33865e0703a9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1202.2280",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}