Pith Number

pith:FTNTOSCB

pith:2003:FTNTOSCB77ATX3UYBZSD6PFTZQ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The fate of four dimensions

Steven B. Giddings

arxiv:hep-th/0303031 v2 · 2003-03-04 · hep-th · astro-ph · gr-qc · hep-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{FTNTOSCB77ATX3UYBZSD6PFTZQ}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-07-04T16:41:11.264122Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2cdb374841ffc13bee980e643f3cb3cc2da464f418a71655bd2b97e8986c978f

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/0303031 · arxiv_version: hep-th/0303031v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0303031 · pith_short_12: FTNTOSCB77AT · pith_short_16: FTNTOSCB77ATX3UY · pith_short_8: FTNTOSCB

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/FTNTOSCB77ATX3UYBZSD6PFTZQ \
  | 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: 2cdb374841ffc13bee980e643f3cb3cc2da464f418a71655bd2b97e8986c978f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "eafdb7d32bd5da95585484a8b2273bce870b631217844cb8636918f641b02562",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph",
      "gr-qc",
      "hep-ph"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2003-03-04T20:08:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "726218ee1b970db3dbddce10eb8c74f25d1bd9a616356e9e58dbe960e79ad08e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/0303031",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}