Pith Number

pith:B7NCHXAV

pith:1998:B7NCHXAVQQIKQKCZTOCQ3IB5HV

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

4-string Junction and Its Network

J. X. Lu, Shibaji Roy

arxiv:hep-th/9807139 v1 · 1998-07-19 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{B7NCHXAVQQIKQKCZTOCQ3IB5HV}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T04:35:15.801648Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0fda23dc158410a828599b850da03d3d6501148070c81721514b464a8dd919bf

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9807139 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9807139v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9807139 · pith_short_12: B7NCHXAVQQIK · pith_short_16: B7NCHXAVQQIKQKCZ · pith_short_8: B7NCHXAV

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/B7NCHXAVQQIKQKCZTOCQ3IB5HV \
  | 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: 0fda23dc158410a828599b850da03d3d6501148070c81721514b464a8dd919bf

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a4bdda2282d0a3b941324cd36ecd346b2740cd30a17b486814d03c3e39c9d605",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1998-07-19T21:20:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "13f302d56a8bbd63db1c30ae4a738483c27f7fbca74928ee09d149b6aa95b306"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9807139",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}