Pith Number

pith:RYARS2YZ

pith:1999:RYARS2YZ4UXDGVR33G5K2E4WM4

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Heterotic String Conformal Field Theory And A-D-E Singularities

Edward Witten

arxiv:hep-th/9909229 v5 · 1999-09-30 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RYARS2YZ4UXDGVR33G5K2E4WM4}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-07-04T17:25:47.485089Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8e01196b19e52e33563bd9baad1396671a5ea37fa2ed4ceebe1aab5b0f6e3e3d

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9909229 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9909229v5 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9909229 · pith_short_12: RYARS2YZ4UXD · pith_short_16: RYARS2YZ4UXDGVR3 · pith_short_8: RYARS2YZ

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/RYARS2YZ4UXDGVR33G5K2E4WM4 \
  | 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: 8e01196b19e52e33563bd9baad1396671a5ea37fa2ed4ceebe1aab5b0f6e3e3d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6b60d717bf6100de73a1b6c74c60972aa5db9133224ebd8fe03dfc4ce73d562f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1999-09-30T20:55:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "57ba81537a474cabb71d946953a0891603cefee4870c850d7444f3f1decfa1e7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9909229",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 5
  }
}