Pith Number

pith:Y2ES5RCV

pith:1996:Y2ES5RCVFJYE24IPVG6IB332FM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Cabled Wilson Loops in BF Theories

Alberto S. Cattaneo (Harvard University)

arxiv:q-alg/9602015 v1 · 1996-02-06 · q-alg · hep-th · math.QA

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Y2ES5RCVFJYE24IPVG6IB332FM}

Prints a linked badge after your title and injects PDF metadata. Compiles on arXiv. Learn more · Embed verified badge

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	2026-07-04T16:02:37.236200Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c6892ec4552a704d710fa9bc80ef7a2b3ea2f603e52fcc64e045460954e12021

Aliases

arxiv: q-alg/9602015 · arxiv_version: q-alg/9602015v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.q-alg/9602015 · pith_short_12: Y2ES5RCVFJYE · pith_short_16: Y2ES5RCVFJYE24IP · pith_short_8: Y2ES5RCV

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/Y2ES5RCVFJYE24IPVG6IB332FM \
  | 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: c6892ec4552a704d710fa9bc80ef7a2b3ea2f603e52fcc64e045460954e12021

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "25079d371677617fdee98f357aec97166ad1bbb6d4696927749a1119570937d8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-th",
      "math.QA"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "q-alg",
    "submitted_at": "1996-02-06T20:15:44Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f7f6e17f6d69dbbb44600f221a6b83cd790405cdac90d79bf618396eb40eb902"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "q-alg/9602015",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}