Pith Number

pith:QN2DVWNN

pith:2002:QN2DVWNNW7363X2IKMVPSCHFJM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Comments On String Theory

Edward Witten

arxiv:hep-th/0212247 v1 · 2002-12-19 · hep-th · astro-ph · hep-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QN2DVWNNW7363X2IKMVPSCHFJM}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-07-04T14:31:54.452149Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

83743ad9adb7f7eddf48532af908e54b3eade4215bf8a4ae8d45e4e75b2023c6

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/0212247 · arxiv_version: hep-th/0212247v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0212247 · pith_short_12: QN2DVWNNW736 · pith_short_16: QN2DVWNNW7363X2I · pith_short_8: QN2DVWNN

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/QN2DVWNNW7363X2IKMVPSCHFJM \
  | 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: 83743ad9adb7f7eddf48532af908e54b3eade4215bf8a4ae8d45e4e75b2023c6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e69cf7105ffd1357af62dc93468d40b0585877529a7eb71201eab8a324d06374",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph",
      "hep-ph"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2002-12-19T20:07:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6564b54eeb9b6845662288d404980f57b445a50c6f158879f75f86be1ecf43b3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/0212247",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}