Pith Number

pith:M3WQDNPN

pith:2017:M3WQDNPNPM3F2VSHRKLHUBGJLS

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Type II strings are Exceptional

Alex S. Arvanitakis, Chris D. A. Blair

arxiv:1712.07115 v2 · 2017-12-19 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{M3WQDNPNPM3F2VSHRKLHUBGJLS}

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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	2026-05-18T00:14:46.709727Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

66ed01b5ed7b365d56478a967a04c95cb99df2567bcdc6b4b1d7e2f06a97e964

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.07115 · arxiv_version: 1712.07115v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.07115 · pith_short_12: M3WQDNPNPM3F · pith_short_16: M3WQDNPNPM3F2VSH · pith_short_8: M3WQDNPN

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/M3WQDNPNPM3F2VSHRKLHUBGJLS \
  | 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: 66ed01b5ed7b365d56478a967a04c95cb99df2567bcdc6b4b1d7e2f06a97e964

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6f36166bd7602e12899ae7043aeec5f6626cd63d82965ebf68fa12b0c518dbe7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-19T18:59:50Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "22154f96f1561a4e8cabe05907acaf667283f5131b9f884420a6f2afb9ccee6b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.07115",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}