Pith Number

pith:VHGYCDWI

pith:1999:VHGYCDWIIC3KDVNCKIDPCOGJEZ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

String Theory on AdS3: Some Open Questions

France), P. Marios Petropoulos (Ecole Polytechnique

arxiv:hep-th/9908189 v2 · 1999-08-28 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VHGYCDWIIC3KDVNCKIDPCOGJEZ}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-07-04T14:33:30.488885Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a9cd810ec840b6a1d5a25206f138c9267ee464169b9c68b01fc37b89c21d49f0

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9908189 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9908189v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9908189 · pith_short_12: VHGYCDWIIC3K · pith_short_16: VHGYCDWIIC3KDVNC · pith_short_8: VHGYCDWI

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/VHGYCDWIIC3KDVNCKIDPCOGJEZ \
  | 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: a9cd810ec840b6a1d5a25206f138c9267ee464169b9c68b01fc37b89c21d49f0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "914ed5928e2aca8783291147a180857fa66eee7e3a862738f51eebc78b246bc3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1999-08-28T17:45:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1e98783182fe881f5bae7038d3b5ee8028562170984e796e8bcca7302b508603"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9908189",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}