Pith Number

pith:3IBGU6ZV

pith:2009:3IBGU6ZVA5IQB4YSFNXRRLIZT4

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

There is no "Theory of Everything" inside E8

Jacques Distler, Skip Garibaldi

arxiv:0905.2658 v3 · 2009-05-16 · math.RT · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3IBGU6ZVA5IQB4YSFNXRRLIZT4}

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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	2026-05-18T04:33:27.359801Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

da026a7b35075100f3122b6f18ad199f174bdd3464fb46a3835a0d3476a6d90d

Aliases

arxiv: 0905.2658 · arxiv_version: 0905.2658v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0905.2658 · pith_short_12: 3IBGU6ZVA5IQ · pith_short_16: 3IBGU6ZVA5IQB4YS · pith_short_8: 3IBGU6ZV

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/3IBGU6ZVA5IQB4YSFNXRRLIZT4 \
  | 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: da026a7b35075100f3122b6f18ad199f174bdd3464fb46a3835a0d3476a6d90d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4d078061d8e09adbca861b92639d72a22d87b60ac9ee529970d55d63f9da8504",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.RT",
    "submitted_at": "2009-05-16T06:45:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "df079d1fac5c934209f0c4a17900873e67e99926bac00996f086dbc972aac045"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0905.2658",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}