Pith Number

pith:NZ7CX2Y4

pith:2002:NZ7CX2Y4UOQWWSIVJDFFKSPYPX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Gauge Fields and Scalars in Rolling Tachyon Backgrounds

Brian Wecht (UC San Diego), Thomas Mehen (Duke U.)

arxiv:hep-th/0206212 v2 · 2002-06-24 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NZ7CX2Y4UOQWWSIVJDFFKSPYPX}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T02:36:05.120256Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6e7e2beb1ca3a16b491548ca5549f87dfa59c4df5a5515e5bd0ed24aaaf311f6

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/0206212 · arxiv_version: hep-th/0206212v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0206212 · pith_short_12: NZ7CX2Y4UOQW · pith_short_16: NZ7CX2Y4UOQWWSIV · pith_short_8: NZ7CX2Y4

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/NZ7CX2Y4UOQWWSIVJDFFKSPYPX \
  | 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: 6e7e2beb1ca3a16b491548ca5549f87dfa59c4df5a5515e5bd0ed24aaaf311f6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "841eda31913344eddb0e9be4e5e18a89be27c51390b36e8268e924224615e1aa",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2002-06-24T09:03:08Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "83a5cb99cefd6f2a0f130f22e714c76550fb0f7bfd9afe4f2342222969ce83cf"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/0206212",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}