Pith Number

pith:EIFIHC4P

pith:1995:EIFIHC4PCDIII3MQZT24VSHWQD

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Operator algebra of the 4D W_3 string

Jim McCarthy, Krzysztof Pilch, Peter Bouwknegt

arxiv:hep-th/9509121 v1 · 1995-09-25 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{EIFIHC4PCDIII3MQZT24VSHWQD}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T01:06:01.083495Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

220a838b8f10d0846d90ccf5cac8f680d5445db078fcd5d4d621fd696bb43de9

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9509121 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9509121v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9509121 · pith_short_12: EIFIHC4PCDII · pith_short_16: EIFIHC4PCDIII3MQ · pith_short_8: EIFIHC4P

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/EIFIHC4PCDIII3MQZT24VSHWQD \
  | 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: 220a838b8f10d0846d90ccf5cac8f680d5445db078fcd5d4d621fd696bb43de9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0a6ab627dc59cd2efdc2c3edb1d5f0de9ca8e9037ce25df94f192cef73cec9ab",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1995-09-25T03:05:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8dd57ab5f05c6c2b9d154836d8c24f519b433301619eff7d7426c8ffa093e695"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9509121",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}