Pith Number

pith:ISAF67YW

pith:1995:ISAF67YWRYWHJJT2L4MMA3D6SH

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Is string theory a theory of strings?

Clifford V. Johnson, Nemanja Kaloper, Ramzi R. Khuri, Robert C. Myers

arxiv:hep-th/9509070 v2 · 1995-09-14 · hep-th

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\pithnumber{ISAF67YWRYWHJJT2L4MMA3D6SH}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations 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	2026-05-18T02:36:03.852402Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

44805f7f168e2c74a67a5f18c06c7e91c3972d0a8398b72face598d58fec6809

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9509070 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9509070v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9509070 · pith_short_12: ISAF67YWRYWH · pith_short_16: ISAF67YWRYWHJJT2 · pith_short_8: ISAF67YW

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/ISAF67YWRYWHJJT2L4MMA3D6SH \
  | 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: 44805f7f168e2c74a67a5f18c06c7e91c3972d0a8398b72face598d58fec6809

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4f6a2521f8128d42e25f63e1f0b3f65a365862745737d693120684493ae724c8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1995-09-14T01:01:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1b9d8712d43f9e75dcd4e44f7e8d34a69297dc7466665592b0ae51772acf78b9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9509070",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}