Pith Number

pith:JNLGSHYE

pith:2017:JNLGSHYEON4ZOPVMTUJWSBVRXH

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An Exact Operator That Knows Its Location

A. Liam Fitzpatrick, Daliang Li, Hongbin Chen, Jared Kaplan, Nikhil Anand

arxiv:1708.04246 v2 · 2017-08-14 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JNLGSHYEON4ZOPVMTUJWSBVRXH}

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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	2026-05-18T00:21:11.514211Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4b56691f047379973eac9d136906b1b9d2ef60cd425a071b347e9704e409605d

Aliases

arxiv: 1708.04246 · arxiv_version: 1708.04246v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.04246 · pith_short_12: JNLGSHYEON4Z · pith_short_16: JNLGSHYEON4ZOPVM · pith_short_8: JNLGSHYE

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/JNLGSHYEON4ZOPVMTUJWSBVRXH \
  | 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: 4b56691f047379973eac9d136906b1b9d2ef60cd425a071b347e9704e409605d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "41fdddf6b6ff0e6c335626066734993b7c065f1c24f0c46b87da6af73df7937a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-14T18:00:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cd44e4f401ff0384c90df66218f91ba4937834e0ff24753df215fd45cd56fa21"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1708.04246",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}