Pith Number

pith:HN3QCOBC

pith:2015:HN3QCOBCK7HBRD32O5SH666S7D

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Hair-brane Ideas on the Horizon

Ben E. Niehoff, Emil J. Martinec

arxiv:1509.00044 v2 · 2015-08-31 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HN3QCOBCK7HBRD32O5SH666S7D}

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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	2026-05-18T01:22:01.002513Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3b7701382257ce188f7a77647f7bd2f8edcdbd20bd78afcd317e5b2d15fe4b07

Aliases

arxiv: 1509.00044 · arxiv_version: 1509.00044v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1509.00044 · pith_short_12: HN3QCOBCK7HB · pith_short_16: HN3QCOBCK7HBRD32 · pith_short_8: HN3QCOBC

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/HN3QCOBCK7HBRD32O5SH666S7D \
  | 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: 3b7701382257ce188f7a77647f7bd2f8edcdbd20bd78afcd317e5b2d15fe4b07

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3f776a7e30bd02b4641a829a971fba2bc85580ad3d2c286a867b8a1654940f4e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2015-08-31T20:24:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "612f943a159d27c25d68e00ae7ff698ea64e43349951b23a421c8b074c302e5a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1509.00044",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}