Pith Number

pith:JQY4I3AY

pith:1996:JQY4I3AYS34MKZ67VMAIOJAQ7X

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Actions for QCD-like strings

W. Siegel

arxiv:hep-th/9601002 v1 · 1996-01-02 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JQY4I3AYS34MKZ67VMAIOJAQ7X}

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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	2026-07-04T16:02:02.057154Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4c31c46c1896f8c567dfab00872410fdf3ae4f33faa520b4a6997ee03a820c33

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9601002 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9601002v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9601002 · pith_short_12: JQY4I3AYS34M · pith_short_16: JQY4I3AYS34MKZ67 · pith_short_8: JQY4I3AY

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/JQY4I3AYS34MKZ67VMAIOJAQ7X \
  | 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: 4c31c46c1896f8c567dfab00872410fdf3ae4f33faa520b4a6997ee03a820c33

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "853d9ea48649b85fb2c198144401b03efdf12c7cdc4d767644f851ece662c092",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1996-01-02T16:25:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7afb40e92f66af42daa07093af0640b3c0e69599837d5c38ee9a5c9686445dc1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9601002",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}