Pith Number

pith:2NDRWUCF

pith:1994:2NDRWUCF5YLWVP5RRJBKFWNCB7

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Calculating the Rest Tension for a Polymer of String Bits

Charles B. Thorn

arxiv:hep-th/9407169 v2 · 1994-07-26 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2NDRWUCF5YLWVP5RRJBKFWNCB7}

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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	2026-05-18T01:08:04.018077Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d3471b5045ee176abfb18a42a2d9a20fdfcb0eda0a31a10129b0d9e82e4ba112

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9407169 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9407169v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9407169 · pith_short_12: 2NDRWUCF5YLW · pith_short_16: 2NDRWUCF5YLWVP5R · pith_short_8: 2NDRWUCF

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/2NDRWUCF5YLWVP5RRJBKFWNCB7 \
  | 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: d3471b5045ee176abfb18a42a2d9a20fdfcb0eda0a31a10129b0d9e82e4ba112

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5ae7168fe5fe1cba21aa928ce572a911660391d56eb91979c9f9b0e2125d8a35",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1994-07-26T16:34:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "540f2bfeff74e6d733ca5446ddcbfd77290896a2af4bfe65e4e08fb73eb0e39e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9407169",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}