Pith Number

pith:WKQS43KQ

pith:1999:WKQS43KQKUFTXRE2BIKZG2NH7T

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Exotic Gauge Theories from Tensor Calculus

Friedemann Brandt, Joan Simon, Ulrich Theis

arxiv:hep-th/9910177 v2 · 1999-10-22 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WKQS43KQKUFTXRE2BIKZG2NH7T}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-07-04T16:15:00.537757Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b2a12e6d50550b3bc49a0a159369a7fcc3c9a834e0dec799517a070f8791a115

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9910177 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9910177v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9910177 · pith_short_12: WKQS43KQKUFT · pith_short_16: WKQS43KQKUFTXRE2 · pith_short_8: WKQS43KQ

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/WKQS43KQKUFTXRE2BIKZG2NH7T \
  | 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: b2a12e6d50550b3bc49a0a159369a7fcc3c9a834e0dec799517a070f8791a115

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0285764023d5e11c0f32688130c197e2e7a0b1f51128d9723971f3293cad8671",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1999-10-22T13:39:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2efc32fc4eb6d1380b20bab18f6f025fa1fb517322103ffb376b3ce609c69b45"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9910177",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}