Pith Number

pith:BU5BFNHX

pith:1993:BU5BFNHX7LBB6HA7KX37CO7O7I

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Embedded Defects

Manuel Barriola, Martin Bucher, Tanmay Vachaspati

arxiv:hep-th/9306120 v1 · 1993-06-22 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BU5BFNHX7LBB6HA7KX37CO7O7I}

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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	2026-05-18T04:37:43.320575Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0d3a12b4f7fac21f1c1f55f7f13beefa00dde7a89650d302d9b60c275f9bd94c

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9306120 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9306120v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9306120 · pith_short_12: BU5BFNHX7LBB · pith_short_16: BU5BFNHX7LBB6HA7 · pith_short_8: BU5BFNHX

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/BU5BFNHX7LBB6HA7KX37CO7O7I \
  | 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: 0d3a12b4f7fac21f1c1f55f7f13beefa00dde7a89650d302d9b60c275f9bd94c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8affe03784cdd67caeea28390b60bb740acdc54d2062935bf263b697cf99f8b0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1993-06-22T22:14:10Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6f77c446440ba3f68e90d33d3177c8d6ea8ce030ea942c7bb59e286c17c6f6ee"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9306120",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}