Pith Number

pith:4QMC422I

pith:2012:4QMC422IYQ44TWBK2OGPADLBJO

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Cornering the unphysical vertex

Andrei Mikhailov

arxiv:1203.0677 v2 · 2012-03-03 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4QMC422IYQ44TWBK2OGPADLBJO}

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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	2026-05-18T01:58:15.277414Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e4182e6b48c439c9d82ad38cf00d614b9e6f8b5587489a9198b4fc3a9f7276f9

Aliases

arxiv: 1203.0677 · arxiv_version: 1203.0677v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1203.0677 · pith_short_12: 4QMC422IYQ44 · pith_short_16: 4QMC422IYQ44TWBK · pith_short_8: 4QMC422I

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/4QMC422IYQ44TWBK2OGPADLBJO \
  | 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: e4182e6b48c439c9d82ad38cf00d614b9e6f8b5587489a9198b4fc3a9f7276f9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b319cbfd3fdba69597fac6807a1d1fb2b5f1e8191b16edda9525e9b2da1e0d42",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2012-03-03T18:44:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "50374db5d02a8d84c5e3bf54810be1698a49d6dd62ae208706c8cbecce18836d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1203.0677",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}