Pith Number

pith:XPJAIGKX

pith:2012:XPJAIGKXYS5RTQNRG7LNR67BXM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Phantom Term in Open String Field Theory

Carlo Maccaferri, Theodore Erler

arxiv:1201.5122 v2 · 2012-01-24 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XPJAIGKXYS5RTQNRG7LNR67BXM}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T01:58:42.429945Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bbd2041957c4bb19c1b137d6d8fbe1bb2619c20c8a733589dd51bbe115371316

Aliases

arxiv: 1201.5122 · arxiv_version: 1201.5122v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1201.5122 · pith_short_12: XPJAIGKXYS5R · pith_short_16: XPJAIGKXYS5RTQNR · pith_short_8: XPJAIGKX

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/XPJAIGKXYS5RTQNRG7LNR67BXM \
  | 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: bbd2041957c4bb19c1b137d6d8fbe1bb2619c20c8a733589dd51bbe115371316

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8645c2e9208a28c7f70e2957e7e68a9f5b96c7eb635f92c80f620ed3d6104236",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2012-01-24T21:01:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9122dbf5a0ffce687ff7053b43d17eae8e42bf17a5107aa32d7fdcf6f5f61c8b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1201.5122",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}