Pith Number

pith:YZPYMUIX

pith:2002:YZPYMUIXIOSZGRJQWFALPX4RNK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Higher Yang-Mills Theory

John C. Baez

arxiv:hep-th/0206130 v2 · 2002-06-15 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YZPYMUIXIOSZGRJQWFALPX4RNK}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-07-04T14:31:49.010480Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c65f86511743a5934530b140b7df916abeef01b74f245ec97d0cf73b0b6d2a72

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/0206130 · arxiv_version: hep-th/0206130v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0206130 · pith_short_12: YZPYMUIXIOSZ · pith_short_16: YZPYMUIXIOSZGRJQ · pith_short_8: YZPYMUIX

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/YZPYMUIXIOSZGRJQWFALPX4RNK \
  | 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: c65f86511743a5934530b140b7df916abeef01b74f245ec97d0cf73b0b6d2a72

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5a1310203bb21053c79b0b90c66b2a95127a98e7cf4403381a3b3c8ed86542e7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2002-06-15T22:40:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0e85ac778295723afebb0dfbec40ec38d13a650dbeef629404b912751e3ee70f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/0206130",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}