Pith Number

pith:KCTAKJKU

pith:2008:KCTAKJKUIUHNCFHYDJWIBSCJU3

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Recent Progress in Formal Theory

Joseph Polchinski

arxiv:0810.3707 v1 · 2008-10-20 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KCTAKJKUIUHNCFHYDJWIBSCJU3}

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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.

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1 paper in Pith

Formal Theory at ICHEP 2024

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-04T15:15:19.503299Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

50a6052554450ed114f81a6c80c849a6d8e0ed27980a77abb8b005dcaa44c0b4

Aliases

arxiv: 0810.3707 · arxiv_version: 0810.3707v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0810.3707 · pith_short_12: KCTAKJKUIUHN · pith_short_16: KCTAKJKUIUHNCFHY · pith_short_8: KCTAKJKU

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/KCTAKJKUIUHNCFHYDJWIBSCJU3 \
  | 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: 50a6052554450ed114f81a6c80c849a6d8e0ed27980a77abb8b005dcaa44c0b4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e4f471c9fcbee86458d94c81a2312a893f2a48769a1a47a8bfcd19a639869284",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2008-10-20T23:59:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cb4a457747442ed441a3ba22ce4ee1442b5b4c43bc8141aa4d28fc8d74a98c41"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0810.3707",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}