Pith Number

pith:LINCUWA2

pith:1997:LINCUWA22RSHQVADZO4ZP224KF

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Gauge-Invariant Operators for Singular Knots in Chern-Simons Gauge Theory

Esther Perez, J. M. F. Labastida

arxiv:hep-th/9712139 v1 · 1997-12-15 · hep-th · math.QA · q-alg

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LINCUWA22RSHQVADZO4ZP224KF}

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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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First computed	2026-05-18T01:05:55.586287Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5a1a2a581ad464785403cbb997eb5c515889fb0405861f9f6c090a453e3bee24

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9712139 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9712139v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9712139 · pith_short_12: LINCUWA22RSH · pith_short_16: LINCUWA22RSHQVAD · pith_short_8: LINCUWA2

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/LINCUWA22RSHQVADZO4ZP224KF \
  | 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: 5a1a2a581ad464785403cbb997eb5c515889fb0405861f9f6c090a453e3bee24

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c2aa6193a0bffa2ffec96ae30f2a4b0daa063efb575182ffd2342cfe6caf8d4c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.QA",
      "q-alg"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1997-12-15T14:19:50Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "869350e8f91e0143c1f17b7ab6c0b8adedb90b63bc96df906ccafb8cfb35a8fa"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9712139",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}