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pith:3UBAXDFZ

pith:1998:3UBAXDFZGJHPOLOHN56BWJP5QF
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The wall of the cave

A. Polyakov

arxiv:hep-th/9809057 v1 · 1998-09-09 · hep-th

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\pithnumber{3UBAXDFZGJHPOLOHN56BWJP5QF}

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First computed 2026-07-04T16:09:54.358824Z
Builder pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature Pith Ed25519 (pith-v1-2026-05) · public key
Schema pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

dd020b8cb9324ef72dc76f7c1b25fd814c1e4fddb22c6654c9061b8fbceeedbb

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9809057 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9809057v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9809057 · pith_short_12: 3UBAXDFZGJHP · pith_short_16: 3UBAXDFZGJHPOLOH · pith_short_8: 3UBAXDFZ
Agent API
Verify this Pith Number yourself
curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/3UBAXDFZGJHPOLOHN56BWJP5QF \
  | 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: dd020b8cb9324ef72dc76f7c1b25fd814c1e4fddb22c6654c9061b8fbceeedbb
Canonical record JSON
{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1b9a5c5655588fa645cfcbfe7eebda3b22969bf309aa3b7d878948eb273b8aaf",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1998-09-09T02:37:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bc3483ae0ae9504a19dbd06af7372a16e93d13f85005abfb9c966a188f719557"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9809057",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}