Pith Number

pith:WKPTLIPP

pith:1993:WKPTLIPP3SBT2DNDIF46INRQ2S

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Quantum Background Independence In String Theory

Edward Witten

arxiv:hep-th/9306122 v1 · 1993-06-23 · hep-th

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\pithnumber{WKPTLIPP3SBT2DNDIF46INRQ2S}

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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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4 papers in Pith

Large Order Enumerative Geometry, Black Holes and Black Rings

The non-perturbative topological string: from resurgence to wall-crossing of DT invariants

Large Order Enumerative Geometry, Black Holes and Black Rings

The non-perturbative topological string: from resurgence to wall-crossing of DT invariants

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-04T14:32:37.454224Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b29f35a1efdc833d0da34179e43630d49457b048eaa5d67cfcc0f5377dd975fc

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9306122 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9306122v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9306122 · pith_short_12: WKPTLIPP3SBT · pith_short_16: WKPTLIPP3SBT2DND · pith_short_8: WKPTLIPP

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/WKPTLIPP3SBT2DNDIF46INRQ2S \
  | 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: b29f35a1efdc833d0da34179e43630d49457b048eaa5d67cfcc0f5377dd975fc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "09bdd0d27e4f32f326e2cd53be38c973e11fb19dddbb3d8687ebfca91f7b5fc7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1993-06-23T13:32:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "43411162cd38f4f30dc9a08d998caa7eff25201797e01b3b3561a09b5b19f4fc"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9306122",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}