Pith Number

pith:Z4JIS3EZ

pith:2004:Z4JIS3EZ4R3LMCIS7CL7DZYW6C

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Topology change in (2+1)-dimensional gravity with non-Abelian Higgs field

Alexander I. Nesterov

arxiv:gr-qc/0403079 v1 · 2004-03-18 · gr-qc · hep-th · math-ph · math.GT · math.MP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Z4JIS3EZ4R3LMCIS7CL7DZYW6C}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T03:36:27.416404Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cf12896c99e476b60912f897f1e716f080f7e843a4017f6ad4b752401868da5b

Aliases

arxiv: gr-qc/0403079 · arxiv_version: gr-qc/0403079v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.gr-qc/0403079 · pith_short_12: Z4JIS3EZ4R3L · pith_short_16: Z4JIS3EZ4R3LMCIS · pith_short_8: Z4JIS3EZ

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/Z4JIS3EZ4R3LMCIS7CL7DZYW6C \
  | 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: cf12896c99e476b60912f897f1e716f080f7e843a4017f6ad4b752401868da5b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d547aeff9f80c5a2f34d110cc51864ce6273d9fe684ac9d10f16cf0e9eb13532",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-th",
      "math-ph",
      "math.GT",
      "math.MP"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "2004-03-18T03:15:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1278f9af0ab92714e0da9f7bc2c23455e5762f8de10eeccf4ab04e86e0c2cc7e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "gr-qc/0403079",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}