Pith Number

pith:W5NFUS7H

pith:1994:W5NFUS7HS4MVEKUESG6PUXWL2L

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Toward the Universal Theory of Strings

Fiorenzo Bastianelli, Jens Lyng Petersen, Nobuyoshi Ohta

arxiv:hep-th/9402042 v2 · 1994-02-08 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{W5NFUS7HS4MVEKUESG6PUXWL2L}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-07-04T15:57:41.120441Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b75a5a4be79719522a8491bcfa5ecbd2e421941bce875c08008a37439dc94e47

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9402042 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9402042v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9402042 · pith_short_12: W5NFUS7HS4MV · pith_short_16: W5NFUS7HS4MVEKUE · pith_short_8: W5NFUS7H

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/W5NFUS7HS4MVEKUESG6PUXWL2L \
  | 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: b75a5a4be79719522a8491bcfa5ecbd2e421941bce875c08008a37439dc94e47

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d860a6d0ec1377ff02458816f7d4540e539ee86c8210478daaebb83723682c94",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1994-02-08T15:23:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fa95bfe479d187a607b2aaadb4e31a5b648122bb074795184852b061c7d80dde"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9402042",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}