Pith Number

pith:VGAPI3XK

pith:2023:VGAPI3XKW3FP7RB2BFVUDOAOFV

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A first analysis of the ensemble of local maxima of maximal center gauge

Manfried Faber, Roman H\"ollwieser, Rudolf Golubich, Zeinab Dehghan

arxiv:2301.05903 v2 · 2023-01-14 · hep-lat

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First computed	2026-07-05T06:53:33.398031Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a980f46eeab6caffc43a096b41b80e2d604130cf7aa7bd6ce13e2733afa59f0f

Aliases

arxiv: 2301.05903 · arxiv_version: 2301.05903v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2301.05903 · pith_short_12: VGAPI3XKW3FP · pith_short_16: VGAPI3XKW3FP7RB2 · pith_short_8: VGAPI3XK

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VGAPI3XKW3FP7RB2BFVUDOAOFV \
  | 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: a980f46eeab6caffc43a096b41b80e2d604130cf7aa7bd6ce13e2733afa59f0f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "38af97cb29aaf6cda05c1f18697e2884e9dab6a9d3a19ae100304018f7fa13c5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-lat",
    "submitted_at": "2023-01-14T12:10:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "43b2c5d062a9074131ec2d9c836d67d65f73b37adc91918498430b6a68fd4573"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2301.05903",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}