Pith Number

pith:ABDU7YHB

pith:2002:ABDU7YHBSNIP6CRVLTRCTOG7AA

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

String Theory or Field Theory?

A. Marshakov

arxiv:hep-th/0212114 v1 · 2002-12-10 · hep-th

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ABDU7YHBSNIP6CRVLTRCTOG7AA}

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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	2026-05-18T04:33:04.898311Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

00474fe0e19350ff0a355ce229b8df0017401faefdb1a1e3b3307f57eb9de9c3

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/0212114 · arxiv_version: hep-th/0212114v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0212114 · pith_short_12: ABDU7YHBSNIP · pith_short_16: ABDU7YHBSNIP6CRV · pith_short_8: ABDU7YHB

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/ABDU7YHBSNIP6CRVLTRCTOG7AA \
  | 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: 00474fe0e19350ff0a355ce229b8df0017401faefdb1a1e3b3307f57eb9de9c3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e22d8b0c5f4ea77fdf93a0a06414a393d7bc73016d19d8f7c743428960cde0d6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2002-12-10T18:02:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "daea8da0fc1ad98d3470846fbae01d28ea6f3af606e06241551fb4c0ee3737c8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/0212114",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}