Pith Number

pith:IDYMCBG4

pith:1999:IDYMCBG4GGY5JB7ODMM7BZ5MMH

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Massless particles and the geometry of curves. Classical picture

A.Nersessian

arxiv:hep-th/9911020 v1 · 1999-11-03 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IDYMCBG4GGY5JB7ODMM7BZ5MMH}

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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	2026-05-18T01:05:54.738445Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

40f0c104dc31b1d487ee1b19f0e7ac61cb9e1b2bc1ed7150e5d70dae5fb348c1

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9911020 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9911020v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9911020 · pith_short_12: IDYMCBG4GGY5 · pith_short_16: IDYMCBG4GGY5JB7O · pith_short_8: IDYMCBG4

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/IDYMCBG4GGY5JB7ODMM7BZ5MMH \
  | 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: 40f0c104dc31b1d487ee1b19f0e7ac61cb9e1b2bc1ed7150e5d70dae5fb348c1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "03253435c6d9b0bc01b7fefa6a70130e0bd9e75dd6637a7170b0bbde7f8dbcfc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1999-11-03T19:16:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "030ffe071f5e8662c1bfb203fe9824c08a75a1c6a71bc1be96e92491c9816a2b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9911020",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}