Pith Number

pith:WKXKYMDH

pith:2005:WKXKYMDHKK65NVSUNGMJDHDDF5

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Things Fall Apart: Topology Change from Winding Tachyons

A. Adams, A. Saltman, E. Silverstein, J. McGreevy, X. Liu

arxiv:hep-th/0502021 v2 · 2005-02-02 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WKXKYMDHKK65NVSUNGMJDHDDF5}

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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

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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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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T04:28:28.628903Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b2aeac306752bdd6d6546998919c632f5648c762345c7bd14b11266e3acd2f22

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/0502021 · arxiv_version: hep-th/0502021v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0502021 · pith_short_12: WKXKYMDHKK65 · pith_short_16: WKXKYMDHKK65NVSU · pith_short_8: WKXKYMDH

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/WKXKYMDHKK65NVSUNGMJDHDDF5 \
  | 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: b2aeac306752bdd6d6546998919c632f5648c762345c7bd14b11266e3acd2f22

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b53c4432f3a13778dafe680097d5475463e1bb8c2a69d10504be3af7a90ff7ba",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2005-02-02T20:38:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9f84f88b85d1fbf5028869006956256a3d7f7e7ce513e422d3a5776b7dec8d20"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/0502021",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}