Pith Number

pith:3PXNXPFD

pith:1995:3PXNXPFDACTEMLRAMLVNA5VVVR

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Strong Coupling and the Cosmological Constant

Edward Witten

arxiv:hep-th/9506101 v1 · 1995-06-15 · 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{3PXNXPFDACTEMLRAMLVNA5VVVR}

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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	2026-05-18T00:34:05.684661Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

dbeedbbca300a6462e2062ead076b5ac43751c549d71e0b96a65f5ec0f1743f8

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9506101 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9506101v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9506101 · pith_short_12: 3PXNXPFDACTE · pith_short_16: 3PXNXPFDACTEMLRA · pith_short_8: 3PXNXPFD

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/3PXNXPFDACTEMLRAMLVNA5VVVR \
  | 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: dbeedbbca300a6462e2062ead076b5ac43751c549d71e0b96a65f5ec0f1743f8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0c1225319dcd1f59a1455b6aa2d009a7d2b50e2e8855c22487941fa2e10b7d10",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1995-06-15T14:05:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cfb04f588d0b7d85576be30ada567cfa1689035f36b3894ab5331566d457c21f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9506101",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}