Pith Number

pith:S3KBQXW2

pith:2016:S3KBQXW2TEZDDXMDP3IC4NENL2

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Highly Excited Strings I: Generating Function

Dimitri P. Skliros, Edmund J. Copeland, Paul M. Saffin

arxiv:1611.06498 v1 · 2016-11-20 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{S3KBQXW2TEZDDXMDP3IC4NENL2}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:49:23.271653Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

96d4185eda993231dd837ed02e348d5eab629bdb169580b593c3372bdaa97ea1

Aliases

arxiv: 1611.06498 · arxiv_version: 1611.06498v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1611.06498 · pith_short_12: S3KBQXW2TEZD · pith_short_16: S3KBQXW2TEZDDXMD · pith_short_8: S3KBQXW2

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/S3KBQXW2TEZDDXMDP3IC4NENL2 \
  | 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: 96d4185eda993231dd837ed02e348d5eab629bdb169580b593c3372bdaa97ea1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f42078f52bd181b2820c2e66a5d1d4ec4a3c21e0628ea24e8ca7586ad857f9ee",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2016-11-20T10:51:33Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3a82e7801e93bd08a83a3aa142a0b092b54f2b0e4c5e2f2f51e8ad8d8f7cdec7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1611.06498",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}