Pith Number

pith:2BTB3J77

pith:2003:2BTB3J77JZCN2I27QVPMN3O2PX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Calculations in the Light-Cone Representation

Gary McCartor

arxiv:hep-th/0303052 v1 · 2003-03-06 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2BTB3J77JZCN2I27QVPMN3O2PX}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T00:36:53.662416Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d0661da7ff4e44dd235f855ec6edda7dd750eb8b87bec31f309ac24afc4c6c5f

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/0303052 · arxiv_version: hep-th/0303052v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0303052 · pith_short_12: 2BTB3J77JZCN · pith_short_16: 2BTB3J77JZCN2I27 · pith_short_8: 2BTB3J77

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/2BTB3J77JZCN2I27QVPMN3O2PX \
  | 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: d0661da7ff4e44dd235f855ec6edda7dd750eb8b87bec31f309ac24afc4c6c5f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "23739d6b6eabcad6bb41f40b2ca7aa5a0cffd8fefe016c2beb78b023aaa2cfae",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2003-03-06T19:37:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "96323f5ed91f4799ec9b6241c26dd13a739d58ac27f51438b6399ba26961ca95"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/0303052",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}