Pith Number

pith:W2I7L6SR

pith:2012:W2I7L6SRPVIO5DBET44OUFZJ7O

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String Theory, Unification and Quantum Gravity

K. S. Stelle

arxiv:1203.4689 v1 · 2012-03-21 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{W2I7L6SRPVIO5DBET44OUFZJ7O}

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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	2026-05-18T01:58:05.080756Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b691f5fa517d50ee8c249f38ea1729fbbcfac384b782c099573cfd1b2884efd3

Aliases

arxiv: 1203.4689 · arxiv_version: 1203.4689v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1203.4689 · pith_short_12: W2I7L6SRPVIO · pith_short_16: W2I7L6SRPVIO5DBE · pith_short_8: W2I7L6SR

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/W2I7L6SRPVIO5DBET44OUFZJ7O \
  | 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: b691f5fa517d50ee8c249f38ea1729fbbcfac384b782c099573cfd1b2884efd3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1ab73ad0f2ac9a9ab3aacff010674ed25e510626a09f5426d7ef26bdc72a961d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2012-03-21T09:39:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "268f06ffe7ce7173c093c1837cfbee47fc6570dcd65317d33d0141cb073a6d90"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1203.4689",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}