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pith:TB4DJUXV

pith:2017:TB4DJUXVH2P6FBLMA3AN7R3CKW

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On Gauge Theories and Covariant Derivatives in Metric Spaces

Kaushik Ghosh

arxiv:1702.02384 v27 · 2017-02-07 · physics.gen-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{TB4DJUXVH2P6FBLMA3AN7R3CKW}

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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	2026-05-17T23:47:36.563724Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

987834d2f53e9fe2856c06c0dfc76255b6c37dffb7a5ba053302a1851f4d7b3c

Aliases

arxiv: 1702.02384 · arxiv_version: 1702.02384v27 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1702.02384 · pith_short_12: TB4DJUXVH2P6 · pith_short_16: TB4DJUXVH2P6FBLM · pith_short_8: TB4DJUXV

Agent API

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/TB4DJUXVH2P6FBLMA3AN7R3CKW \
  | 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: 987834d2f53e9fe2856c06c0dfc76255b6c37dffb7a5ba053302a1851f4d7b3c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b971cd95dd5c925f6d01ee26b7cd3c8affed9a628fd39208a1c587acaf5ed111",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.gen-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-02-07T18:26:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6eeedcdc8e2fcc18353a9cff3078fafbcc4cfce6168f1b8d8b298d6f4edf803f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1702.02384",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 27
  }
}