Pith Number

pith:VQX7BTKJ

pith:2002:VQX7BTKJRJBHVQYDAE6C5JATWG

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Rotation and Shear of a String

Mark D. Roberts

arxiv:hep-th/0204236 v3 · 2002-04-28 · hep-th · gr-qc

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VQX7BTKJRJBHVQYDAE6C5JATWG}

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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	2026-05-18T04:25:11.827594Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ac2ff0cd498a427ac303013c2ea413b196f82899a165f8259f842857416ba04a

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/0204236 · arxiv_version: hep-th/0204236v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0204236 · pith_short_12: VQX7BTKJRJBH · pith_short_16: VQX7BTKJRJBHVQYD · pith_short_8: VQX7BTKJ

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/VQX7BTKJRJBHVQYDAE6C5JATWG \
  | 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: ac2ff0cd498a427ac303013c2ea413b196f82899a165f8259f842857416ba04a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9339d3fa8df442d1cf131c3f12d998beb53bf96ea1534cf9e2f84eab66aaf7d6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2002-04-28T19:51:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5f7b6c6f2d30c0d57d2671bbbc520229108eccf2b2c1586f7eafd39fd09b30b7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/0204236",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}