Pith Number

pith:4DLLZ3C5

pith:1992:4DLLZ3C5NHCDDB4GRBFRZSP7M2

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Discrete States in the $W_3$ String

C.N. Pope, E. Sezgin, K.S. Stelle, X.J. Wang

arxiv:hep-th/9209111 v1 · 1992-09-27 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4DLLZ3C5NHCDDB4GRBFRZSP7M2}

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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	2026-07-04T15:53:51.424775Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e0d6bcec5d69c4318786884b1cc9ff668a6047aa705d11e20031290d41bcddd6

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9209111 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9209111v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9209111 · pith_short_12: 4DLLZ3C5NHCD · pith_short_16: 4DLLZ3C5NHCDDB4G · pith_short_8: 4DLLZ3C5

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/4DLLZ3C5NHCDDB4GRBFRZSP7M2 \
  | 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: e0d6bcec5d69c4318786884b1cc9ff668a6047aa705d11e20031290d41bcddd6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "48e47d93fd8f8908d28b3437407811eb93b4d083a15f7b3303bb922b79f7f8fe",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1992-09-27T23:37:50Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9866cee478ddc916229216e4707dbd07e8ebcdf10d6881dbbc2107b0b787365f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9209111",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}