Pith Number

pith:37BYFATA

pith:2024:37BYFATADQ33DWBBRNJUJGYW6H

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A note on background independence in $\text{AdS}_3$ string theory

Bob Knighton

arxiv:2404.19571 v1 · 2024-04-30 · hep-th

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{37BYFATADQ33DWBBRNJUJGYW6H}

Prints a linked badge after your title and injects PDF metadata. Compiles on arXiv. Learn more · Embed verified badge

Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-07-05T08:13:45.315711Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

dfc38282601c37b1d8218b53449b16f1e78c9fa3a76888c04b2fa8bab07f6264

Aliases

arxiv: 2404.19571 · arxiv_version: 2404.19571v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2404.19571 · pith_short_12: 37BYFATADQ33 · pith_short_16: 37BYFATADQ33DWBB · pith_short_8: 37BYFATA

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/37BYFATADQ33DWBBRNJUJGYW6H \
  | 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: dfc38282601c37b1d8218b53449b16f1e78c9fa3a76888c04b2fa8bab07f6264

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "edea89b03ebcdae2af73caf2c3c8d1aa7121b350d75a50f8989d8f11b8bb7539",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2024-04-30T14:05:17Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "27be10d8c56d808013e0256728ebd0790b7af547a49b5a514109c0ae294c9594"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2404.19571",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}