Pith Number

pith:JN7NFXST

pith:2012:JN7NFXST2TYZM326ZY3FUDWWMB

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String theory: big problem for small size

S. Sahoo

arxiv:1209.5498 v1 · 2012-09-25 · physics.gen-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JN7NFXST2TYZM326ZY3FUDWWMB}

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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	2026-05-18T03:44:48.325017Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4b7ed2de53d4f1966f5ece365a0ed6606dbb984ebb0ed1d352721279462b26aa

Aliases

arxiv: 1209.5498 · arxiv_version: 1209.5498v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1209.5498 · pith_short_12: JN7NFXST2TYZ · pith_short_16: JN7NFXST2TYZM326 · pith_short_8: JN7NFXST

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/JN7NFXST2TYZM326ZY3FUDWWMB \
  | 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: 4b7ed2de53d4f1966f5ece365a0ed6606dbb984ebb0ed1d352721279462b26aa

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8c23f9f4f682c7a1554eea70400426617b567bf63b2cc7af557f9cd0237f1dee",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.gen-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-09-25T05:20:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "574edd29676e9ba56d513b2c829e13d27b77959219205b36e97cd0c039f5e2c8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1209.5498",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}