Pith Number

pith:3CLAZFAV

pith:1994:3CLAZFAVPOJFLZKUDBQ7P2VMC4

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Vertex Operators are Not Closeable

Wolfram Boenkost

arxiv:hep-th/9401004 v1 · 1994-01-04 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3CLAZFAVPOJFLZKUDBQ7P2VMC4}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:38:42.137195Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d8960c94157b9255e5541861f7eaac172d06264bb9525e71cdf494333b131264

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9401004 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9401004v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9401004 · pith_short_12: 3CLAZFAVPOJF · pith_short_16: 3CLAZFAVPOJFLZKU · pith_short_8: 3CLAZFAV

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/3CLAZFAVPOJFLZKUDBQ7P2VMC4 \
  | 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: d8960c94157b9255e5541861f7eaac172d06264bb9525e71cdf494333b131264

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "89b1a58397ab9918a96b76e83d07293e27b4ca8e8ba2475ef824147f83790a88",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1994-01-04T10:37:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "783517cdb223b99f22dc4363d6c695d9830f564a1377cac0d0bba9bcbaedf3b6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9401004",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}