Pith Number

pith:YK2HSWAE

pith:1992:YK2HSWAE6NIJ73AXP3L7BYNUDE

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Interacting $W_3$ String

C.N. Pope, H. Lu, S. Schrans, X.J. Wang

arxiv:hep-th/9212117 v2 · 1992-12-18 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YK2HSWAE6NIJ73AXP3L7BYNUDE}

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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	2026-07-04T15:53:51.486763Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c2b4795804f3509fec177ed7f0e1b4191d66a7ccf4f014b4fe451ee65a403b04

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9212117 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9212117v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9212117 · pith_short_12: YK2HSWAE6NIJ · pith_short_16: YK2HSWAE6NIJ73AX · pith_short_8: YK2HSWAE

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/YK2HSWAE6NIJ73AXP3L7BYNUDE \
  | 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: c2b4795804f3509fec177ed7f0e1b4191d66a7ccf4f014b4fe451ee65a403b04

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "491183fd3566e85298726281327c29d2fef38db2aebbb78716d323209453642e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1992-12-18T22:30:25Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c96eb03c446d0472b52b58a6668a75a629a388d0014b9d6fa4ad89eb3b1d23e2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9212117",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}