Pith Number

pith:OYUS6IOL

pith:2001:OYUS6IOLMAYDLPUGL7SORM6V4V

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Wave Functionals, Gauge Invariant Equations for Massive Modes and the Born-Infeld Equation in the Loop Variable Approach to String Theory

B. Sathiapalan

arxiv:hep-th/0102017 v1 · 2001-02-05 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{OYUS6IOLMAYDLPUGL7SORM6V4V}

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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	2026-05-18T01:06:00.071218Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

76292f21cb603035be865fe4e8b3d5e5496471d6f09bc5fb7c3c7d6e071c65e3

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/0102017 · arxiv_version: hep-th/0102017v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0102017 · pith_short_12: OYUS6IOLMAYD · pith_short_16: OYUS6IOLMAYDLPUG · pith_short_8: OYUS6IOL

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/OYUS6IOLMAYDLPUGL7SORM6V4V \
  | 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: 76292f21cb603035be865fe4e8b3d5e5496471d6f09bc5fb7c3c7d6e071c65e3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d51d800c8696f4888ec2baaa0674d9f2fa0c2d50d007aa5d320a2d4f5578238a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2001-02-05T04:40:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b455c57e4a3521050a99e27209e9936124adbbf40354b114a5ada69e35d16752"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/0102017",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}