Pith Number

pith:TY2QRKN2

pith:2019:TY2QRKN2HX62PSYK3U7GRKO5EZ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Taming boundary condition changing operator anomalies with the tachyon vacuum

Carlo Maccaferri, Ruggero Noris, Theodore Erler

arxiv:1901.08038 v3 · 2019-01-23 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{TY2QRKN2HX62PSYK3U7GRKO5EZ}

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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	2026-05-17T23:42:13.792628Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9e3508a9ba3dfda7cb0add3e68a9dd265b503173b55514cc25a763b7291c4714

Aliases

arxiv: 1901.08038 · arxiv_version: 1901.08038v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1901.08038 · pith_short_12: TY2QRKN2HX62 · pith_short_16: TY2QRKN2HX62PSYK · pith_short_8: TY2QRKN2

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/TY2QRKN2HX62PSYK3U7GRKO5EZ \
  | 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: 9e3508a9ba3dfda7cb0add3e68a9dd265b503173b55514cc25a763b7291c4714

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9bcd10c78fcadeac4a8ad9284a0f4bd9e88e753da32886fdd78113936a5a5ff5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2019-01-23T18:38:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6455fcbff4dfa1ba99c18b3401410cb5284a26bc3c204e69fc8b7775aea3d002"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1901.08038",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}