Pith Number

pith:VS77SJXV

pith:1993:VS77SJXV44767QLQ7G7A5SM5LT

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Zero Tension Limit of Strings and Superstrings

Ulf Lindstr\"om

arxiv:hep-th/9303173 v1 · 1993-03-31 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VS77SJXV44767QLQ7G7A5SM5LT}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:09:16.399130Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

acbff926f5e73fefc170f9be0ec99d5ce6c10d06c7d773bad8a29b1a3b60afc8

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9303173 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9303173v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9303173 · pith_short_12: VS77SJXV4476 · pith_short_16: VS77SJXV44767QLQ · pith_short_8: VS77SJXV

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/VS77SJXV44767QLQ7G7A5SM5LT \
  | 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: acbff926f5e73fefc170f9be0ec99d5ce6c10d06c7d773bad8a29b1a3b60afc8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "72fe44818465a297975da23411deee2733a58f75513a45dcffa860deb63d683f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1993-03-31T11:13:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "aca4fc37a2da050c241324e7de08e564e0127936767df077eb969ccf451526a3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9303173",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}