Pith Number

pith:Y53CTDSR

pith:1992:Y53CTDSR7SMN6TDOCPPGL7SYCE

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Finite Temperature Strings

Mark J. Bowick

arxiv:hep-th/9210016 v1 · 1992-10-02 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Y53CTDSR7SMN6TDOCPPGL7SYCE}

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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	2026-07-04T14:32:27.511068Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c776298e51fc98df4c6e13de65fe581119da9f71b190680914f0544cb0f745c2

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9210016 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9210016v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9210016 · pith_short_12: Y53CTDSR7SMN · pith_short_16: Y53CTDSR7SMN6TDO · pith_short_8: Y53CTDSR

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/Y53CTDSR7SMN6TDOCPPGL7SYCE \
  | 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: c776298e51fc98df4c6e13de65fe581119da9f71b190680914f0544cb0f745c2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a698f620fac71888a5c6a18659672a137b2a0737c4977e976fc6ec15b0e02d06",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1992-10-02T23:54:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9ea73f2586a3e860ad85c1cab9bd9a1e73ffc6dc9a31adac26660a359704da78"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9210016",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}