Pith Number

pith:I57DPV4I

pith:1995:I57DPV4IERQLMG45SFG7Z2IGWC

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

On Factorizing Correlation Functions in String Theory Using Loop Variables

B. Sathiapalan

arxiv:hep-th/9507157 v1 · 1995-07-28 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{I57DPV4IERQLMG45SFG7Z2IGWC}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:38:38.978990Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

477e37d7882460b61b9d914dfce906b0a5964c79c927a971e5883407089c18a8

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9507157 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9507157v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9507157 · pith_short_12: I57DPV4IERQL · pith_short_16: I57DPV4IERQLMG45 · pith_short_8: I57DPV4I

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/I57DPV4IERQLMG45SFG7Z2IGWC \
  | 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: 477e37d7882460b61b9d914dfce906b0a5964c79c927a971e5883407089c18a8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "152c7f5ee7f275f6cb395ee98d2b744c26c896f4b2286df0408c51213a73866c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1995-07-28T02:47:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "106ce80f33cf9596a4682733f14e75eef3f4b4b72f4bff403a52e50e6412e125"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9507157",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}