Pith Number

pith:IW2QFW3Y

pith:1995:IW2QFW3YAAVVONOVXW4YEJZY2X

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Gauge Invariant Geometric Variables For Yang-Mills Theory

C.S. Lam, Kenneth Johnson, Peter E. Haagensen

arxiv:hep-th/9511226 v1 · 1995-11-30 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IW2QFW3YAAVVONOVXW4YEJZY2X}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T04:35:16.600078Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

45b502db78002b5735d5bdb9822738d5d42d7ac4f5570af5653eeea25e9c4ef6

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9511226 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9511226v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9511226 · pith_short_12: IW2QFW3YAAVV · pith_short_16: IW2QFW3YAAVVONOV · pith_short_8: IW2QFW3Y

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/IW2QFW3YAAVVONOVXW4YEJZY2X \
  | 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: 45b502db78002b5735d5bdb9822738d5d42d7ac4f5570af5653eeea25e9c4ef6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ac18831ec11224dd5942a7b068268b8e30fe3a2c22ab17977cb2943e1fe487b6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1995-11-30T20:32:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "dfcc5180ce0b1c081601cf5a2b089cf89b4b526fee1cf6910f7474566249fddf"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9511226",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}