Pith Number

pith:5UFOCASQ

pith:1998:5UFOCASQVTFHVPLJGSHIEJ6677

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

String Webs and 1/4 BPS Monopoles

B. Kol (Stanford), O. Bergman (Harvard)

arxiv:hep-th/9804160 v1 · 1998-04-23 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5UFOCASQVTFHVPLJGSHIEJ6677}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-07-04T16:09:46.641856Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ed0ae10250acca7abd69348e8227deffc0b473f9761659c23dae03c97d3204a6

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9804160 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9804160v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9804160 · pith_short_12: 5UFOCASQVTFH · pith_short_16: 5UFOCASQVTFHVPLJ · pith_short_8: 5UFOCASQ

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/5UFOCASQVTFHVPLJGSHIEJ6677 \
  | 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: ed0ae10250acca7abd69348e8227deffc0b473f9761659c23dae03c97d3204a6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ad5043434118ee650b55132cbb262bd2878dd1a5e70351e2f0596571c87c32ae",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1998-04-23T20:55:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d982a2f6cffa7135d9f4ef1473acda76032dd95386ab01d5574d7b6411e764ed"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9804160",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}