Pith Number

pith:B2GVZSLR

pith:1994:B2GVZSLRO3AU26WFF77RTVEXCJ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Proper Time Formalism, Gauge Invariance and the Effects of a Finite World Sheet Cutoff in String Theory

B. Sathiapalan

arxiv:hep-th/9409023 v2 · 1994-09-04 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{B2GVZSLRO3AU26WFF77RTVEXCJ}

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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	2026-05-18T04:15:26.793176Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0e8d5cc97176c14d7ac52fff19d49712627d3f0161d0441afd8baa83cfc8cf3c

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9409023 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9409023v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9409023 · pith_short_12: B2GVZSLRO3AU · pith_short_16: B2GVZSLRO3AU26WF · pith_short_8: B2GVZSLR

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/B2GVZSLRO3AU26WFF77RTVEXCJ \
  | 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: 0e8d5cc97176c14d7ac52fff19d49712627d3f0161d0441afd8baa83cfc8cf3c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "929f281aab3c19d9dcd11ad1a93d04a69cf991d80f4bd413eb2a83779ea7f7b7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1994-09-04T17:53:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fefe15d7de95a01d160d36e026feb591ce8f713ff728c59206ba1534eaac11e1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9409023",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}