Pith Number

pith:6ND2NXXC

pith:1996:6ND2NXXC3HRTZKHD6H5JZ2ERGI

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A new look at the RST model

F. Zimmerschied, H.J.W. Mueller--Kirsten, Jian-Ge Zhou, J.--Q. Liang

arxiv:hep-th/9603017 v1 · 1996-03-05 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6ND2NXXC3HRTZKHD6H5JZ2ERGI}

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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	2026-05-18T01:38:38.267602Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f347a6dee2d9e33ca8e3f1fa9ce89132373809ee997707611ab82f582725c1f9

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9603017 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9603017v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9603017 · pith_short_12: 6ND2NXXC3HRT · pith_short_16: 6ND2NXXC3HRTZKHD · pith_short_8: 6ND2NXXC

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/6ND2NXXC3HRTZKHD6H5JZ2ERGI \
  | 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: f347a6dee2d9e33ca8e3f1fa9ce89132373809ee997707611ab82f582725c1f9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d810c702b87bd9e237a5e0a8fc1f109df1f48a29fa5f100a96ed7058708966b7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1996-03-05T10:29:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6fc8a7a25d6a00b3ecef14bf97c6cbc734ffd1c0c3009afe7b7d23ee20a539a9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9603017",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}