Pith Number

pith:4A6WEBPA

pith:2011:4A6WEBPACSK2RCE72TTE5FA7V7

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Towards a kinetic theory of strings

Vitaly Vanchurin

arxiv:1103.1593 v3 · 2011-03-08 · hep-th · astro-ph.CO · gr-qc · hep-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4A6WEBPACSK2RCE72TTE5FA7V7}

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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	2026-05-18T04:20:37.847809Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e03d6205e01495a8889fd4e64e941fafe4ea43758e404549fbbb7aa1b6baf6fb

Aliases

arxiv: 1103.1593 · arxiv_version: 1103.1593v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1103.1593 · pith_short_12: 4A6WEBPACSK2 · pith_short_16: 4A6WEBPACSK2RCE7 · pith_short_8: 4A6WEBPA

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/4A6WEBPACSK2RCE72TTE5FA7V7 \
  | 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: e03d6205e01495a8889fd4e64e941fafe4ea43758e404549fbbb7aa1b6baf6fb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c1856e8d4539cce7536226e7689f872f39e47297e5e85b51e2a736a4ca780a3e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.CO",
      "gr-qc",
      "hep-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2011-03-08T18:35:26Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7722d847d7d140837eeffeeca6a7509b1d4c8b1a8f75509226f602563724882c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1103.1593",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}