Pith Number

pith:MEZBOYCG

pith:2000:MEZBOYCG2JA6CHLZV56XCW6UNN

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Level truncation and the tachyon in open bosonic string field theory

Nicolas Moeller, Washington Taylor (MIT)

arxiv:hep-th/0002237 v1 · 2000-02-28 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MEZBOYCG2JA6CHLZV56XCW6UNN}

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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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Recursive-algebraic solution of the closed string tachyon vacuum equation

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-04T16:20:40.322916Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6132176046d241e11d79af7d715bd46b4a8a61f353966517205ee63bce5b89ee

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/0002237 · arxiv_version: hep-th/0002237v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0002237 · pith_short_12: MEZBOYCG2JA6 · pith_short_16: MEZBOYCG2JA6CHLZ · pith_short_8: MEZBOYCG

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/MEZBOYCG2JA6CHLZV56XCW6UNN \
  | 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: 6132176046d241e11d79af7d715bd46b4a8a61f353966517205ee63bce5b89ee

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "38c59aa59f2b3b80a2154da4a94794cec428b8a14fda5039186ab9ba48be40e5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2000-02-28T18:52:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9333eaa066c14dbd6a5d3199c88b464139ab2e26a31e544043c1a7d90c68766b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/0002237",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}