Pith Number

pith:GSERM5SB

pith:1997:GSERM5SBEEF3MLUSDXQ6LMNYXC

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Electromagnetic self interaction in strings

Brandon Carter

arxiv:hep-th/9704210 v1 · 1997-04-30 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{GSERM5SBEEF3MLUSDXQ6LMNYXC}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T01:05:55.962047Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3489167641210bb62e921de1e5b1b8b896ca9cfae9eb63d50772eeb33e6bda98

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9704210 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9704210v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9704210 · pith_short_12: GSERM5SBEEF3 · pith_short_16: GSERM5SBEEF3MLUS · pith_short_8: GSERM5SB

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/GSERM5SBEEF3MLUSDXQ6LMNYXC \
  | 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: 3489167641210bb62e921de1e5b1b8b896ca9cfae9eb63d50772eeb33e6bda98

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d84d433c4a52d58f8a924034d899237818df96453335c6009e335fa89568ed53",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1997-04-30T13:06:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "72d254c53a52fd12847533dda3c83a93fdaa9515773e5b511fe22333eacc2c6a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9704210",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}