Pith Number

pith:4VKPALWZ

pith:1998:4VKPALWZV6265YHXTFD5YH5OGB

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Degeneration of ALF D_n Metrics

G. Chalmers, M. Rocek, S. Wiles

arxiv:hep-th/9812212 v3 · 1998-12-22 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4VKPALWZV6265YHXTFD5YH5OGB}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T02:35:54.721839Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e554f02ed9afb5eee0f79947dc1fae30453e8e0ad783a7e22c73c752c12f33eb

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9812212 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9812212v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9812212 · pith_short_12: 4VKPALWZV626 · pith_short_16: 4VKPALWZV6265YHX · pith_short_8: 4VKPALWZ

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/4VKPALWZV6265YHXTFD5YH5OGB \
  | 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: e554f02ed9afb5eee0f79947dc1fae30453e8e0ad783a7e22c73c752c12f33eb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7e04d3b53746164886817d60879be94de4e56ca18b1bbd88f57f4723ea091842",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1998-12-22T22:18:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d338ab24cb813293046d2a9fe76ae774a920ee92d62df5a25fa7325cf2b5b5a2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9812212",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}