Pith Number

pith:5YLYULGE

pith:1998:5YLYULGEXHTWYKZOSY3E2VSOOZ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Vacuum Instability in Chern-Simons Theory, Null Vectors and Two-Dimensional Logarithmic Operators

Alex Lewis, Ian I. Kogan

arxiv:hep-th/9802102 v3 · 1998-02-13 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5YLYULGEXHTWYKZOSY3E2VSOOZ}

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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	2026-05-18T01:05:55.508625Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ee178a2cc4b9e76c2b2e96364d564e7661cb0e3b7f6567d25770047b0e66e687

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9802102 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9802102v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9802102 · pith_short_12: 5YLYULGEXHTW · pith_short_16: 5YLYULGEXHTWYKZO · pith_short_8: 5YLYULGE

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/5YLYULGEXHTWYKZOSY3E2VSOOZ \
  | 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: ee178a2cc4b9e76c2b2e96364d564e7661cb0e3b7f6567d25770047b0e66e687

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e8bbe6669458eb91a289fbab79821ae47c3f5d3aa6ff42d1a7d2474108d6ed09",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1998-02-13T17:21:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "819adadbe6393dd722c50cf7c39351f54da8b1deb4432bdbf30523e467242912"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9802102",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}