Pith Number

pith:Z4CNDB2J

pith:2001:Z4CNDB2JMKAJAODMSRHSW3S3BU

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Worldsheet Description of Large N_c Quantum Field Theory

Charles B. Thorn, Korkut Bardakci

arxiv:hep-th/0110301 v3 · 2001-10-31 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Z4CNDB2JMKAJAODMSRHSW3S3BU}

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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	2026-05-18T02:36:11.421130Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cf04d18749628090386c944f2b6e5b0d118282fecc793dc70db6755c8b76f788

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/0110301 · arxiv_version: hep-th/0110301v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0110301 · pith_short_12: Z4CNDB2JMKAJ · pith_short_16: Z4CNDB2JMKAJAODM · pith_short_8: Z4CNDB2J

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/Z4CNDB2JMKAJAODMSRHSW3S3BU \
  | 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: cf04d18749628090386c944f2b6e5b0d118282fecc793dc70db6755c8b76f788

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b1a760d669bbab90e51f75fa7588dd6bbac762c9a946899ab70aefd7fe5a10a0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2001-10-31T19:28:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5e7c71dd0aeb8865dea7f493de2a33a94c5e843124f9b19162b581dc939bba36"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/0110301",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}