Pith Number

pith:RTM4GAJ7

pith:2017:RTM4GAJ7WZVNIPHW23LBYGQB5J

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The hidden symmetry of the heterotic string

Arnav Tripathy, Shamit Kachru

arxiv:1702.02572 v1 · 2017-02-08 · hep-th · math.QA · math.RT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RTM4GAJ7WZVNIPHW23LBYGQB5J}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:51:05.523023Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8cd9c3013fb66ad43cf6d6d61c1a01ea5b364a2f327c0548086b8597e616dc0c

Aliases

arxiv: 1702.02572 · arxiv_version: 1702.02572v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1702.02572 · pith_short_12: RTM4GAJ7WZVN · pith_short_16: RTM4GAJ7WZVNIPHW · pith_short_8: RTM4GAJ7

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/RTM4GAJ7WZVNIPHW23LBYGQB5J \
  | 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: 8cd9c3013fb66ad43cf6d6d61c1a01ea5b364a2f327c0548086b8597e616dc0c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a339ace798c5b12bf88c5241923cfce38210e4d1600b889247ff55eda9e79720",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.QA",
      "math.RT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2017-02-08T19:00:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bfd750fb15218b2c0f6c92d978e25868b47132e1a5905e41a76d4b0835b4a645"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1702.02572",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}