Pith Number

pith:OFUQVUE5

pith:1999:OFUQVUE56AYARQ2CESBT7COWUY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The light-cone gauge without prescriptions

A.G.M.Schmidt, A.T.Suzuki

arxiv:hep-th/9904004 v2 · 1999-04-01 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{OFUQVUE56AYARQ2CESBT7COWUY}

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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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First computed	2026-05-18T02:35:54.503165Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

71690ad09df03008c34224833f89d6a60bb51fe3448e93ed1532e7f726621069

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9904004 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9904004v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9904004 · pith_short_12: OFUQVUE56AYA · pith_short_16: OFUQVUE56AYARQ2C · pith_short_8: OFUQVUE5

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/OFUQVUE56AYARQ2CESBT7COWUY \
  | 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: 71690ad09df03008c34224833f89d6a60bb51fe3448e93ed1532e7f726621069

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3b07018cdaee4caa55cff11f6e9bf5976b8e36ccc8bd18dd4911100a939053f6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1999-04-01T14:07:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8478009bd34f410c0c136ad382f5c271dd66dab7fa739b0d96a205500d3ffe4a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9904004",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}