Pith Number

pith:AXSGNV2W

pith:1994:AXSGNV2WRFSYQLZ7VOMYMC5RJU

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

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D.A. Lowe, L. Thorlacius

arxiv:hep-th/9408134 v2 · 1994-08-24 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{AXSGNV2WRFSYQLZ7VOMYMC5RJU}

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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	2026-05-18T04:37:34.937295Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

05e466d7568965882f3fab99860bb14d11cf1639259254143c7cd392e2707290

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9408134 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9408134v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9408134 · pith_short_12: AXSGNV2WRFSY · pith_short_16: AXSGNV2WRFSYQLZ7 · pith_short_8: AXSGNV2W

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/AXSGNV2WRFSYQLZ7VOMYMC5RJU \
  | 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: 05e466d7568965882f3fab99860bb14d11cf1639259254143c7cd392e2707290

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e35023389a2aa8573b20338185f0326d770bea9169a31e34065a36504e2a8bdb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1994-08-24T23:08:56Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "18f680432974dd13bc1da529b1a53296d854f8802313f25bb0f5b84e694e787b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9408134",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}