Pith Number

pith:JR5TLHNT

pith:1994:JR5TLHNTALVR77QQHNM7VXEMWF

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

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arxiv:hep-th/9412044 v1 · 1994-12-06 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JR5TLHNTALVR77QQHNM7VXEMWF}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T01:38:41.063707Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4c7b359db302eb1ffe103b59fadc8cb15b90c1eabd9dc80d8e69734c01a60dec

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9412044 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9412044v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9412044 · pith_short_12: JR5TLHNTALVR · pith_short_16: JR5TLHNTALVR77QQ · pith_short_8: JR5TLHNT

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/JR5TLHNTALVR77QQHNM7VXEMWF \
  | 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: 4c7b359db302eb1ffe103b59fadc8cb15b90c1eabd9dc80d8e69734c01a60dec

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4042eaf4c5b1af1f878b707f78079963835d12d266914482d69b8aa20d54abef",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1994-12-06T03:58:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ea76596c27f53fcbbd17d655d1186921c06d11d5a6b55e18f8a021fe39f4a172"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9412044",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}