Pith Number

pith:OD3PAFEW

pith:1996:OD3PAFEWGSWBUK4KXHGZG4GKTV

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

High energy scattering of non-critical strings

Eric D'Hoker, Kenichiro Aoki

arxiv:hep-th/9609221 v1 · 1996-09-28 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{OD3PAFEWGSWBUK4KXHGZG4GKTV}

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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	2026-05-18T02:36:03.072100Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

70f6f0149634ac1a2b8ab9cd9370ca9d5bb2864971e3984020a7b9a8e8bcaa28

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9609221 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9609221v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9609221 · pith_short_12: OD3PAFEWGSWB · pith_short_16: OD3PAFEWGSWBUK4K · pith_short_8: OD3PAFEW

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/OD3PAFEWGSWBUK4KXHGZG4GKTV \
  | 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: 70f6f0149634ac1a2b8ab9cd9370ca9d5bb2864971e3984020a7b9a8e8bcaa28

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "75f34ef6dde6d7bee4505ef71b99de1f0dd9c82212bbfc230f847f51e1843893",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1996-09-28T01:47:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2663f138c178dccdeaef8af3c539da58addcba18c733faa281708b25cf232692"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9609221",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}