Pith Number

pith:HF2M7VZA

pith:2007:HF2M7VZAHGIGAKGCE4AJIYXP2Q

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Linear b-Gauges for Open String Fields

Ashoke Sen, Barton Zwiebach, Michael Kiermaier

arxiv:0712.0627 v1 · 2007-12-05 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HF2M7VZAHGIGAKGCE4AJIYXP2Q}

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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	2026-05-18T04:34:00.839729Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3974cfd72039906028c227009462efd432372a73162bcb6d472a4a7d764e675a

Aliases

arxiv: 0712.0627 · arxiv_version: 0712.0627v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0712.0627 · pith_short_12: HF2M7VZAHGIG · pith_short_16: HF2M7VZAHGIGAKGC · pith_short_8: HF2M7VZA

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/HF2M7VZAHGIGAKGCE4AJIYXP2Q \
  | 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: 3974cfd72039906028c227009462efd432372a73162bcb6d472a4a7d764e675a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2cebe282801becce79c9473e7ade7d7e9a2a4aa4a6666f034ab98c185ac4f7fb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2007-12-05T05:23:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4d6a5db80e86e0bb95388c7b6a75d01c8aeefffdd6ccf5967ffeacc85315aa76"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0712.0627",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}