Pith Number

pith:C6BID5NC

pith:2003:C6BID5NC7LUV7YFX3PUK64YU2U

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Physical States at the Tachyonic Vacuum of Open String Field Theory

Camillo Imbimbo, Stefano Giusto

arxiv:hep-th/0309164 v1 · 2003-09-16 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{C6BID5NC7LUV7YFX3PUK64YU2U}

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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	2026-05-18T01:38:46.644336Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

178281f5a2fae95fe0b7dbe8af7314d51518f015bb2ea1654b0bb5a76bd92a72

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/0309164 · arxiv_version: hep-th/0309164v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0309164 · pith_short_12: C6BID5NC7LUV · pith_short_16: C6BID5NC7LUV7YFX · pith_short_8: C6BID5NC

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/C6BID5NC7LUV7YFX3PUK64YU2U \
  | 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: 178281f5a2fae95fe0b7dbe8af7314d51518f015bb2ea1654b0bb5a76bd92a72

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a7b0ea4f9621aed1d12d53b917842776a2b742c0d97d6c23499b8b3316783b9d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2003-09-16T15:34:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c2b9ab8dc8c119e83b8d2f740f9adf3806b4dd13636b792ba98fca2315c85ea2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/0309164",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}