Pith Number

pith:5B6PKVXE

pith:1993:5B6PKVXEASX2WCL6AOP6ORTJCV

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Connes' Model Building Kit

Jean-Marc Zylinski, Thomas Sch\"ucker

arxiv:hep-th/9312186 v1 · 1993-12-23 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5B6PKVXEASX2WCL6AOP6ORTJCV}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T01:38:42.148687Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e87cf556e404afab097e039fe7466915440b8e1af47d1c68d025401a2d95f9b7

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9312186 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9312186v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9312186 · pith_short_12: 5B6PKVXEASX2 · pith_short_16: 5B6PKVXEASX2WCL6 · pith_short_8: 5B6PKVXE

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/5B6PKVXEASX2WCL6AOP6ORTJCV \
  | 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: e87cf556e404afab097e039fe7466915440b8e1af47d1c68d025401a2d95f9b7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ed77eb3cb0f087431145854b507c9e82341bc780f1dd33d219a2562b7b4e92dc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1993-12-23T14:11:52Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "66bb06a3e4eb6ef874840c5f625c674d4f9487665a53aff9604420553a3ccf1b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9312186",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}