Pith Number

pith:W65SRKUA

pith:2017:W65SRKUAWIVUA3AWF3TX633LQ7

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Torsion in Gauge Theory

H.T. Nieh

arxiv:1712.00901 v2 · 2017-12-04 · gr-qc

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{W65SRKUAWIVUA3AWF3TX633LQ7}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T00:22:26.948457Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b7bb28aa80b22b406c162ee77f6f6b87e26c9866385e80e6d270da033c159685

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.00901 · arxiv_version: 1712.00901v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.00901 · pith_short_12: W65SRKUAWIVU · pith_short_16: W65SRKUAWIVUA3AW · pith_short_8: W65SRKUA

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/W65SRKUAWIVUA3AWF3TX633LQ7 \
  | 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: b7bb28aa80b22b406c162ee77f6f6b87e26c9866385e80e6d270da033c159685

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7c794ae68d843077e71821a4685698b16eb57f6a00074c213ff7f8fc5cdc2fd8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-04T04:44:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cc3801c3c34d551ddedd983b8ad5a92aae027aa8e5e0ebca1e619859443d5db6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.00901",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}