Pith Number

pith:NSKECR2X

pith:2006:NSKECR2XIS6P5FXSPRNRUJ5HSR

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

String/Flux Tube Duality on the Lightcone

Charles B. Thorn, Chung-I Tan, Richard C. Brower

arxiv:hep-th/0603256 v1 · 2006-03-31 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NSKECR2XIS6P5FXSPRNRUJ5HSR}

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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	2026-07-04T15:20:00.133867Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6c9441475744bcfe96f27c5b1a27a7944f46f412e2037b6ae4ef0bec9584b570

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/0603256 · arxiv_version: hep-th/0603256v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0603256 · pith_short_12: NSKECR2XIS6P · pith_short_16: NSKECR2XIS6P5FXS · pith_short_8: NSKECR2X

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/NSKECR2XIS6P5FXSPRNRUJ5HSR \
  | 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: 6c9441475744bcfe96f27c5b1a27a7944f46f412e2037b6ae4ef0bec9584b570

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "77be09f4af143665ea01947fdef6a9038c207c5d4f68a05761af6fdc780cea8f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2006-03-31T18:34:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "dffbecdc8b2b02b1b74724fc293e498b5d770a9c1aa33d1c3126afe34e5f342e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/0603256",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}