Pith Number

pith:VVVPB66A

pith:2014:VVVPB66AD6YBQXRUSEJHQH5TLS

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Background Independence, Gauge Invariance and Equations of Motion for Closed String Modes

B. Sathiapalan

arxiv:1412.1973 v2 · 2014-12-05 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VVVPB66AD6YBQXRUSEJHQH5TLS}

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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	2026-05-18T01:35:49.633154Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ad6af0fbc01fb0185e349112781fb35cba9d789153fba2cc789a7179a3f214dd

Aliases

arxiv: 1412.1973 · arxiv_version: 1412.1973v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1412.1973 · pith_short_12: VVVPB66AD6YB · pith_short_16: VVVPB66AD6YBQXRU · pith_short_8: VVVPB66A

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/VVVPB66AD6YBQXRUSEJHQH5TLS \
  | 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: ad6af0fbc01fb0185e349112781fb35cba9d789153fba2cc789a7179a3f214dd

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d3b580b71b59bdad359eca5932a99daa5e44dbf5fc17e4b80ac3166bef5ed774",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2014-12-05T12:07:51Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a2fa0dfac218034c34c61c3b09d4c2b8d19ea72b892821d3bbe26cf07996ffe1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1412.1973",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}