Pith Number

pith:2VRFHE7H

pith:2005:2VRFHE7HIGQCROM2ZL7Q2PTPOK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Probing the 5th Dimension with the QCD String

Chung-I Tan, Ethan Thompson, Richard C. Brower

arxiv:hep-th/0503223 v1 · 2005-03-29 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2VRFHE7HIGQCROM2ZL7Q2PTPOK}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-07-04T16:56:07.553907Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d5625393e741a028b99acaff0d3e6f72a65d6362770c90b12de829d47629bcf1

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/0503223 · arxiv_version: hep-th/0503223v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0503223 · pith_short_12: 2VRFHE7HIGQC · pith_short_16: 2VRFHE7HIGQCROM2 · pith_short_8: 2VRFHE7H

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/2VRFHE7HIGQCROM2ZL7Q2PTPOK \
  | 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: d5625393e741a028b99acaff0d3e6f72a65d6362770c90b12de829d47629bcf1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7661c2e0c753f905c9ed6566be1999fce98ab0d37bcb00d1bfc5fd759a2d123b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2005-03-29T07:53:44Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "874d2a516c60dbb2e47416933c6734ecf5da021b89904501b1f9d32636ca7414"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/0503223",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}