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pith:UMZSKRJ4

pith:1986:UMZSKRJ4WI5WDTHYJJLF47452G
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Desperately Seeking Superstrings

Paul Ginsparg, Sheldon Glashow

arxiv:physics/9403001 v1 · 1986-04-25 · physics.pop-ph · hep-th

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\pithnumber{UMZSKRJ4WI5WDTHYJJLF47452G}

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4 Citations open
5 Replications open
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First computed 2026-05-18T01:38:04.610096Z
Builder pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature Pith Ed25519 (pith-v1-2026-05) · public key
Schema pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a33325453cb23b61ccf84a565e7f9dd1ad716ebb2de68afa60ac094b11dc809e

Aliases

arxiv: physics/9403001 · arxiv_version: physics/9403001v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.physics/9403001 · pith_short_12: UMZSKRJ4WI5W · pith_short_16: UMZSKRJ4WI5WDTHY · pith_short_8: UMZSKRJ4
Agent API
Verify this Pith Number yourself
curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/UMZSKRJ4WI5WDTHYJJLF47452G \
  | 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: a33325453cb23b61ccf84a565e7f9dd1ad716ebb2de68afa60ac094b11dc809e
Canonical record JSON
{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e15d6f387c69a9d7f720d6cef66cb033a3ebc14e817b04f4366fa6339e314ab1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "physics.pop-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1986-04-25T15:39:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2483a8856f382f7fc609ff052cede4f97655f8034f4a05210e9337e3900a4184"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "physics/9403001",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}