Pith Number

pith:DTVKCI2H

pith:1996:DTVKCI2HDL36LIKWN5VRN34YM3

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Field Theory Questions for String Theory Answers

C. Sonnenschein, O. Aharony, S. Theisen, S. Yankielowicz

arxiv:hep-th/9611222 v4 · 1996-11-26 · hep-th

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{DTVKCI2HDL36LIKWN5VRN34YM3}

Prints a linked badge after your title and injects PDF metadata. Compiles on arXiv. Learn more · Embed verified badge

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	2026-05-18T01:05:56.498418Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1ceaa123471af7e5a1566f6b16ef9866e8353b7d29fb63e1abb2a50dad3c15a4

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9611222 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9611222v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9611222 · pith_short_12: DTVKCI2HDL36 · pith_short_16: DTVKCI2HDL36LIKW · pith_short_8: DTVKCI2H

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/DTVKCI2HDL36LIKWN5VRN34YM3 \
  | 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: 1ceaa123471af7e5a1566f6b16ef9866e8353b7d29fb63e1abb2a50dad3c15a4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a9c1817c5091f6c535bd51ea2b43d751e3f17fcdbefda38f0a7361707d72acd1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1996-11-26T16:06:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "aabb991f3a9b7302f4ba5ebf7a6b83ad14ebebaf5c6b9f88b68a9803d3227ea0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9611222",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}