Pith Number

pith:VK2BJ7BU

pith:1993:VK2BJ7BU5P2JL3LPNS5ZLGEVEX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Are There Topologically Charged States Associated with Quantum Electrodynamics ?

E.C.Marino

arxiv:hep-th/9306068 v1 · 1993-06-15 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VK2BJ7BU5P2JL3LPNS5ZLGEVEX}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T01:38:42.633448Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

aab414fc34ebf495ed6f6cbb95989525f8ddc209e3b92193c0b0f9806bd4dbe1

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9306068 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9306068v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9306068 · pith_short_12: VK2BJ7BU5P2J · pith_short_16: VK2BJ7BU5P2JL3LP · pith_short_8: VK2BJ7BU

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/VK2BJ7BU5P2JL3LPNS5ZLGEVEX \
  | 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: aab414fc34ebf495ed6f6cbb95989525f8ddc209e3b92193c0b0f9806bd4dbe1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "df85e976f9deb3bc4f90a3cbe0ca6ade1881a5476fe83acf9ea46a3a3ce1d9fd",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1993-06-15T20:38:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6aa85e5dc5c76a6e81033a22a9e7af75396f53ae0fc4ce17f010063cdd70a7ee"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9306068",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}