Pith Number

pith:IHB2J7GY

pith:2018:IHB2J7GYBAQIF2APYERVDZN7MW

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String Bits and Gluing of Metastring Strips

Sonali Mohapatra

arxiv:1810.04197 v1 · 2018-10-09 · hep-th · gr-qc

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IHB2J7GYBAQIF2APYERVDZN7MW}

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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	2026-05-18T00:03:40.840961Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

41c3a4fcd8082082e80fc12351e5bf659fcb5660d9750b24ab4dc03594ac20ba

Aliases

arxiv: 1810.04197 · arxiv_version: 1810.04197v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1810.04197 · pith_short_12: IHB2J7GYBAQI · pith_short_16: IHB2J7GYBAQIF2AP · pith_short_8: IHB2J7GY

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/IHB2J7GYBAQIF2APYERVDZN7MW \
  | 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: 41c3a4fcd8082082e80fc12351e5bf659fcb5660d9750b24ab4dc03594ac20ba

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ac0748216987ff437e986ad8b77018a4ee8a47dbcc293ebc04377cfac997d78a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2018-10-09T18:16:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0e2681be0efd26375e38bcce3fd76218a9c19bf072276ba5c04d7a1dbd684f82"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1810.04197",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}