Pith Number

pith:XI4BQCMR

pith:1999:XI4BQCMRZSHZ3ITHKFO3BIC4WO

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Monopoles and Harmonic Maps

Paul Sutcliffe, Theodora Ioannidou

arxiv:hep-th/9903183 v2 · 1999-03-22 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XI4BQCMRZSHZ3ITHKFO3BIC4WO}

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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	2026-05-18T04:35:15.618279Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ba38180991cc8f9da267515db0a05cb3a9fa12bda4935ea221623b2f996664f3

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9903183 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9903183v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9903183 · pith_short_12: XI4BQCMRZSHZ · pith_short_16: XI4BQCMRZSHZ3ITH · pith_short_8: XI4BQCMR

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/XI4BQCMRZSHZ3ITHKFO3BIC4WO \
  | 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: ba38180991cc8f9da267515db0a05cb3a9fa12bda4935ea221623b2f996664f3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ebe4cd8aa5d4eade4bb079dad587df13606bdd393b2b7406ab6e78dcab90bc1f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1999-03-22T10:13:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f7a008df9f9c595ab6871c309d219ba4a7af1ea235a1eedd7000407ead4d3d3d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9903183",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}