Pith Number

pith:VR4TFLB6

pith:2002:VR4TFLB6SAKV2UEVWYUEICQDRY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Rotating Quantum Thermal Distribution

Adrian C. Ottewill, Gavin Duffy

arxiv:hep-th/0211096 v2 · 2002-11-11 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VR4TFLB6SAKV2UEVWYUEICQDRY}

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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	2026-05-18T04:35:23.465021Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ac7932ac3e90155d5095b628440a038e28d0ff81dfadbe8151fafeada4418bc7

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/0211096 · arxiv_version: hep-th/0211096v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0211096 · pith_short_12: VR4TFLB6SAKV · pith_short_16: VR4TFLB6SAKV2UEV · pith_short_8: VR4TFLB6

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/VR4TFLB6SAKV2UEVWYUEICQDRY \
  | 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: ac7932ac3e90155d5095b628440a038e28d0ff81dfadbe8151fafeada4418bc7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6ff4620d1b48c1433f38364c466e525b67a16f92cb5b30a3cdacd5cae152b9d2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2002-11-11T20:58:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c7dcc327da2dce1a6dbf3568d978d8cf9c8597904329462d08ed4c307eb472dc"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/0211096",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}