Pith Number

pith:KG4B4CLB

pith:1995:KG4B4CLBQDL5KGB2JT7V7KKCQB

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

String Dynamics at Strong Coupling

C.M. Hull

arxiv:hep-th/9512181 v2 · 1995-12-21 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KG4B4CLBQDL5KGB2JT7V7KKCQB}

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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	2026-05-18T04:22:50.464504Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

51b81e096180d7d5183a4cff5fa942804fc62ae1482d8ad684d22a4e05322372

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9512181 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9512181v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9512181 · pith_short_12: KG4B4CLBQDL5 · pith_short_16: KG4B4CLBQDL5KGB2 · pith_short_8: KG4B4CLB

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/KG4B4CLBQDL5KGB2JT7V7KKCQB \
  | 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: 51b81e096180d7d5183a4cff5fa942804fc62ae1482d8ad684d22a4e05322372

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "389e863494e7d1267735b3d08c96a79fd95e03861f50c866100aad166595b877",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1995-12-21T18:53:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "425954b6dbfad2ab95bcf18fda4a0389fca9cd0ba6fb39f8c8d9af98a68fff94"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9512181",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}