Pith Number

pith:I4YGR5BB

pith:2003:I4YGR5BBLCYIDTEX4FAFDDXBZN

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

String creation and cosmology

Steven S. Gubser

arxiv:hep-th/0312321 v1 · 2003-12-31 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{I4YGR5BBLCYIDTEX4FAFDDXBZN}

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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	2026-05-18T00:37:27.909887Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

473068f42158b081cc97e140518ee1cb638d0b5ce95259d0e81fee7387f5e51c

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/0312321 · arxiv_version: hep-th/0312321v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0312321 · pith_short_12: I4YGR5BBLCYI · pith_short_16: I4YGR5BBLCYIDTEX · pith_short_8: I4YGR5BB

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/I4YGR5BBLCYIDTEX4FAFDDXBZN \
  | 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: 473068f42158b081cc97e140518ee1cb638d0b5ce95259d0e81fee7387f5e51c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ac5af30754898c632a69cdcae5f2189458d577598f492a09fd8c96a83dcdfb2b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2003-12-31T20:20:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "90eacde94778667223b1ec3f58848b2f4b1577e91092f5eb08da2a6cec9b62d3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/0312321",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}