Pith Number

pith:O4T6QCRU

pith:1998:O4T6QCRUNUNGCWJYVNMSURRP2G

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Beyond Gauge Theories

John H. Schwarz

arxiv:hep-th/9807195 v2 · 1998-07-27 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{O4T6QCRUNUNGCWJYVNMSURRP2G}

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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	2026-07-04T14:33:14.466951Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7727e80a346d1a615938ab592a462fd191b75efa30ace20af5849c784db6d880

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9807195 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9807195v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9807195 · pith_short_12: O4T6QCRUNUNG · pith_short_16: O4T6QCRUNUNGCWJY · pith_short_8: O4T6QCRU

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/O4T6QCRUNUNGCWJYVNMSURRP2G \
  | 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: 7727e80a346d1a615938ab592a462fd191b75efa30ace20af5849c784db6d880

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8bfcd0f197fdf13f5f5f79572dc5f8894a5283dc7f822cd21b22933c2107d5bc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1998-07-27T18:18:10Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "035062050f74dc1cc09820bb20517d5a8fca0e99de88990a3fc2b3b9816e5227"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9807195",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}