Pith Number

pith:DXR6LCWX

pith:1993:DXR6LCWXKMKQI6JCYMCBNUZK7G

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On the Uniqueness of String Theory

Cumrun Vafa, Nathan Berkovits

arxiv:hep-th/9310170 v1 · 1993-10-26 · hep-th

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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T01:38:42.346719Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1de3e58ad75315047922c30416d32af9a72a5b0e16b383b2fb0319b9e8a961db

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9310170 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9310170v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9310170 · pith_short_12: DXR6LCWXKMKQ · pith_short_16: DXR6LCWXKMKQI6JC · pith_short_8: DXR6LCWX

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/DXR6LCWXKMKQI6JCYMCBNUZK7G \
  | 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: 1de3e58ad75315047922c30416d32af9a72a5b0e16b383b2fb0319b9e8a961db

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2994bbae7ebb9e0a52a91e9fa45ca23ef975f8b4ff6ab73fd114738732ac6e39",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1993-10-26T15:39:17Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "891e8209dbd67a59eaef2d98d5ede9562c0f5f1f17471da3f8f9d871f2832703"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9310170",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}