Pith Number

pith:G44UVUPE

pith:2002:G44UVUPEWQS4IMEA53RIIJIWYI

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The dual of nothing

Simon F. Ross, Vijay Balasubramanian

arxiv:hep-th/0205290 v2 · 2002-05-28 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{G44UVUPEWQS4IMEA53RIIJIWYI}

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Record completeness

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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.

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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-04T16:34:46.745325Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

37394ad1e4b425c43080eee2842516c232ce2866d8f91d7c19628285f68d0b78

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/0205290 · arxiv_version: hep-th/0205290v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0205290 · pith_short_12: G44UVUPEWQS4 · pith_short_16: G44UVUPEWQS4IMEA · pith_short_8: G44UVUPE

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/G44UVUPEWQS4IMEA53RIIJIWYI \
  | 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: 37394ad1e4b425c43080eee2842516c232ce2866d8f91d7c19628285f68d0b78

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d4a499084cce2f5353e8c2d5f3986f9e027788073c93c4e1c2d6379ac4e24979",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2002-05-28T19:51:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3f946469175a5412d3b14ac52b042fd1ca38fc22d0894d177fdfa8a820696b77"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/0205290",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}