Pith Number

pith:IFPXNO7G

pith:2005:IFPXNO7GVM3J3B6ZYPVOPLAGIQ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Twenty-five Questions for String Theorists

((1) Orsay, (2) U. of Michigan, (3) Fermilab & Chicago U., (4) U. of Pennsylvania), APC, Brent D. Nelson (4), EFI, G. L. Kane (2), Joseph Lykken (3), LPT & Paris U. VII, MCTP, Pierre Binetruy (1)

arxiv:hep-th/0509157 v1 · 2005-09-20 · hep-th · hep-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IFPXNO7GVM3J3B6ZYPVOPLAGIQ}

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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	2026-05-18T01:05:56.869936Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

415f76bbe6ab369d87d9c3eae7ac06443592f0ca42233052342e14fa033c67f0

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/0509157 · arxiv_version: hep-th/0509157v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0509157 · pith_short_12: IFPXNO7GVM3J · pith_short_16: IFPXNO7GVM3J3B6Z · pith_short_8: IFPXNO7G

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/IFPXNO7GVM3J3B6ZYPVOPLAGIQ \
  | 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: 415f76bbe6ab369d87d9c3eae7ac06443592f0ca42233052342e14fa033c67f0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "572aeb31f7f603ddeae319dfa95687297b2719276d4cf83c85e08551bd2fe2e7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-ph"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2005-09-20T20:01:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "99791829d0f1350f565a05cc30369317907a4ddb425e30fc67213a1ba437830d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/0509157",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}