Pith Number

pith:ETK6NYPW

pith:2000:ETK6NYPWYTB7C35BPMRGFAQML5

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Tachyon Potential in Witten's Superstring Field Theory

Joris Raeymaekers, Pieter-Jan De Smet

arxiv:hep-th/0004112 v2 · 2000-04-14 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ETK6NYPWYTB7C35BPMRGFAQML5}

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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	2026-05-18T01:38:55.513926Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

24d5e6e1f6c4c3f16fa17b2262820c5f659d5ff6332e6beb14e5655934c52957

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/0004112 · arxiv_version: hep-th/0004112v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0004112 · pith_short_12: ETK6NYPWYTB7 · pith_short_16: ETK6NYPWYTB7C35B · pith_short_8: ETK6NYPW

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/ETK6NYPWYTB7C35BPMRGFAQML5 \
  | 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: 24d5e6e1f6c4c3f16fa17b2262820c5f659d5ff6332e6beb14e5655934c52957

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2681c470cf915a0af88cc947f4229066de12fef63dc17ca99209268be77edd6d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2000-04-14T16:46:25Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "365f44c3aad4890592e80f04cb2ebce9f6a98acb5f6626aef2dea48c31d9b772"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/0004112",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}