Pith Number

pith:BN6XVZCY

pith:1996:BN6XVZCY3VFNQY6GKIOI4N7QG6

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Topology Change and theta-Vacua in 2D Yang-Mills Theory

P. Teotonio-Sobrinho, Tom D. Imbo

arxiv:hep-th/9612246 v1 · 1996-12-29 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BN6XVZCY3VFNQY6GKIOI4N7QG6}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:05:56.327848Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0b7d7ae458dd4ad863c6521c8e37f0378039c369a8edf390bd5d610235dc914d

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9612246 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9612246v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9612246 · pith_short_12: BN6XVZCY3VFN · pith_short_16: BN6XVZCY3VFNQY6G · pith_short_8: BN6XVZCY

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/BN6XVZCY3VFNQY6GKIOI4N7QG6 \
  | 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: 0b7d7ae458dd4ad863c6521c8e37f0378039c369a8edf390bd5d610235dc914d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c79fd885e5c92c6a2b9a8a1de7a8439c4581580e02e07e5ba7cf0860c2e24f7c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1996-12-29T21:48:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fc61793e453b4b32a8bab888bf1cf32f88dc3e5a1edd5c7828cc20372c2a9196"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9612246",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}