Pith Number

pith:O6DNFQZB

pith:1993:O6DNFQZBLQ23ZWPBEJNUYR2Y7F

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

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Bruce W. Westbury, John W. Barrett

arxiv:hep-th/9310164 v2 · 1993-10-25 · hep-th · math.QA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{O6DNFQZBLQ23ZWPBEJNUYR2Y7F}

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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.

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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-04T15:21:35.822501Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7786d2c3215c35bcd9e1225b4c4758f95c6d8c8d62a34875eb7169ead1305f95

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9310164 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9310164v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9310164 · pith_short_12: O6DNFQZBLQ23 · pith_short_16: O6DNFQZBLQ23ZWPB · pith_short_8: O6DNFQZB

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/O6DNFQZBLQ23ZWPBEJNUYR2Y7F \
  | 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: 7786d2c3215c35bcd9e1225b4c4758f95c6d8c8d62a34875eb7169ead1305f95

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b4a0f3c71b103c29c7caed2e2124de9b8ab5a8af8ec8c2bfa36eb08c749ffa48",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.QA"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1993-10-25T15:45:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7fa93603af994110bf0c13305a0186cdff5de3bf545c992a06d5cf13ef65a1c8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9310164",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}