Pith Number

pith:V7FX2DYE

pith:1997:V7FX2DYECPOQHMX55KD2EIK3NU

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Issues in Topological Gauge Theory

Andrei Losev, Nikita Nekrasov, Samson Shatashvili

arxiv:hep-th/9711108 v2 · 1997-11-16 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{V7FX2DYECPOQHMX55KD2EIK3NU}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T00:35:53.929868Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

afcb7d0f0413dd03b2fdea87a2215b6d1b88a742262d74803587265d83274aba

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9711108 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9711108v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9711108 · pith_short_12: V7FX2DYECPOQ · pith_short_16: V7FX2DYECPOQHMX5 · pith_short_8: V7FX2DYE

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/V7FX2DYECPOQHMX55KD2EIK3NU \
  | 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: afcb7d0f0413dd03b2fdea87a2215b6d1b88a742262d74803587265d83274aba

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "915324e5c01a82ca1765775fe04eae6b83a0bfe2a09175895cfeddecae41832b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1997-11-16T12:37:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "73f8abcd35bdd2b6179b0980eb67be27f9a6472a69a3e8ee2f33b48e427c5014"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9711108",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}