Pith Number

pith:6SMV4X7T

pith:2003:6SMV4X7TLBQYINNCJEQNQHJFFU

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A short introduction to the fate of the alpha-vacuum

Hael Collins

arxiv:hep-th/0312144 v1 · 2003-12-12 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6SMV4X7TLBQYINNCJEQNQHJFFU}

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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	2026-05-18T00:37:27.915868Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f4995e5ff358618435a24920d81d252d0eb771fdc8a90bbb2fa2651a82f748a1

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/0312144 · arxiv_version: hep-th/0312144v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0312144 · pith_short_12: 6SMV4X7TLBQY · pith_short_16: 6SMV4X7TLBQYINNC · pith_short_8: 6SMV4X7T

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/6SMV4X7TLBQYINNCJEQNQHJFFU \
  | 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: f4995e5ff358618435a24920d81d252d0eb771fdc8a90bbb2fa2651a82f748a1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "65bf0c1a0aba097ec5bef29f98d0b3120ff9bbc1d466d8264fc7d24eda44ad1c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2003-12-12T21:21:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4651d0201b63d523a64b677f7f1bc90526c7fd2024a4111b4dbc15623a567264"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/0312144",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}