Pith Number

pith:I5LAGUSX

pith:2025:I5LAGUSXGLD3EB6XOHN3NIYGE3

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Old Ideas for New Physicists III: String Theory Parameters are NOT Vacuum Expectation Values

T. Banks

arxiv:2501.17697 v1 · 2025-01-29 · hep-th · gr-qc

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{I5LAGUSXGLD3EB6XOHN3NIYGE3}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T10:06:56.676699Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

475603525732c7b207d771dbb6a30626cc78013f67523c40c6cbc48ecd40a876

Aliases

arxiv: 2501.17697 · arxiv_version: 2501.17697v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2501.17697 · pith_short_12: I5LAGUSXGLD3 · pith_short_16: I5LAGUSXGLD3EB6X · pith_short_8: I5LAGUSX

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/I5LAGUSXGLD3EB6XOHN3NIYGE3 \
  | 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: 475603525732c7b207d771dbb6a30626cc78013f67523c40c6cbc48ecd40a876

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0cddd697e1f4d534c4968e7d0ea869a8a318b83f2b3d89bc20aecc6cb3a48163",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2025-01-29T15:07:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2f7bf0baa6a370ad0c3cf3fbd3e9317a9c2b42427eece8a9823e73b30e491984"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2501.17697",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}