Pith Number

pith:FPG4RJY7

pith:1992:FPG4RJY7MPLLF3FWVXIGPXFLBF

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

New Look at QED$_4$: the Photon as a Goldstone Boson and the Topological Interpretation of Electric Charge

A. Kovner, B. Rosenstein

arxiv:hep-th/9210154 v1 · 1992-10-29 · hep-th

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\pithnumber{FPG4RJY7MPLLF3FWVXIGPXFLBF}

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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.

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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-04T15:55:26.666044Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2bcdc8a71f63d6b2ecb6add067dcab095b348e7be76e3e532645270fa1571746

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9210154 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9210154v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9210154 · pith_short_12: FPG4RJY7MPLL · pith_short_16: FPG4RJY7MPLLF3FW · pith_short_8: FPG4RJY7

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/FPG4RJY7MPLLF3FWVXIGPXFLBF \
  | 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: 2bcdc8a71f63d6b2ecb6add067dcab095b348e7be76e3e532645270fa1571746

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7d9f048286d9aa1a1cd39da4e4359b141d316432bcc182dd00fd752d2b593ec4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1992-10-29T21:07:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d2203d02388c7c61f0607f8137a7565ca94c8ee448a686767911e3326ef01bc3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9210154",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}