Pith Number

pith:GD6CL4KA

pith:2017:GD6CL4KAAP2C7CAAASGNGC7YH7

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Symmetry and Emergence

Edward Witten

arxiv:1710.01791 v3 · 2017-10-04 · hep-th · cond-mat.other · hep-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{GD6CL4KAAP2C7CAAASGNGC7YH7}

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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	2026-05-18T00:21:10.650134Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

30fc25f14003f42f8800048cd30bf83fd657eea5cbe0a2f446c2d0ba8f8aba22

Aliases

arxiv: 1710.01791 · arxiv_version: 1710.01791v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1710.01791 · pith_short_12: GD6CL4KAAP2C · pith_short_16: GD6CL4KAAP2C7CAA · pith_short_8: GD6CL4KA

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/GD6CL4KAAP2C7CAAASGNGC7YH7 \
  | 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: 30fc25f14003f42f8800048cd30bf83fd657eea5cbe0a2f446c2d0ba8f8aba22

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6405c67ce35c2cb8ec922179cabf0314d8a6caa2de2f5ed76a658e4f42586c17",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cond-mat.other",
      "hep-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2017-10-04T20:22:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4add080f6f3b6d32713777c3020a22306a7d28da10ca2ad26fb500fec3eec1e3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1710.01791",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}