Pith Number

pith:NJ7JCLA5

pith:1996:NJ7JCLA5ODKJKGPP44D7ZIBZB5

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Duality in String Theory

Jan Louis, Stefan Forste

arxiv:hep-th/9612192 v1 · 1996-12-18 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NJ7JCLA5ODKJKGPP44D7ZIBZB5}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T02:36:02.668528Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6a7e912c1d70d49519efe707fca0390f77088633524c544c5cd3ddb73b95ed28

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9612192 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9612192v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9612192 · pith_short_12: NJ7JCLA5ODKJ · pith_short_16: NJ7JCLA5ODKJKGPP · pith_short_8: NJ7JCLA5

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/NJ7JCLA5ODKJKGPP44D7ZIBZB5 \
  | 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: 6a7e912c1d70d49519efe707fca0390f77088633524c544c5cd3ddb73b95ed28

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "128ae499c6de4e47a6459f13cafc3b671b3c3fdcd78726fe5ae5dab923b48d10",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1996-12-18T17:51:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "881e247a9e4888acecf5325b2d22782452adc0497c9102202a01c5fa5d9204f2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9612192",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}