Pith Number

pith:YL2AFNGN

pith:2015:YL2AFNGN3AKWYUL5FJBQWDIM3U

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

k-Strings as Fundamental Strings

Dimitrios Giataganas

arxiv:1503.09180 v1 · 2015-03-31 · hep-th · hep-lat

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YL2AFNGN3AKWYUL5FJBQWDIM3U}

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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	2026-05-18T02:19:51.237495Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c2f402b4cdd8156c517d2a430b0d0cdd1707c7dce70569c6fe9f38a21d3838f3

Aliases

arxiv: 1503.09180 · arxiv_version: 1503.09180v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1503.09180 · pith_short_12: YL2AFNGN3AKW · pith_short_16: YL2AFNGN3AKWYUL5 · pith_short_8: YL2AFNGN

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/YL2AFNGN3AKWYUL5FJBQWDIM3U \
  | 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: c2f402b4cdd8156c517d2a430b0d0cdd1707c7dce70569c6fe9f38a21d3838f3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5534421d3647f9e930967d1f94e3fbf595d595091907004ca7f04e154345aa16",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-lat"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2015-03-31T19:41:51Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "db94a85c243d0dcd51bbfc7e32106059e21d92ab71892af23e7a825c6915285e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1503.09180",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}