Pith Number

pith:7CQ4XO4S

pith:1994:7CQ4XO4SQTHIZQ2QOWAFQR74QA

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Randomizing the Superstring

W. Siegel

arxiv:hep-th/9403144 v2 · 1994-03-23 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{7CQ4XO4SQTHIZQ2QOWAFQR74QA}

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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	2026-07-04T15:57:43.083128Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f8a1cbbb9284ce8cc35075805847fc8007f8929b735727c7007af1be8a616f6c

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9403144 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9403144v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9403144 · pith_short_12: 7CQ4XO4SQTHI · pith_short_16: 7CQ4XO4SQTHIZQ2Q · pith_short_8: 7CQ4XO4S

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/7CQ4XO4SQTHIZQ2QOWAFQR74QA \
  | 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: f8a1cbbb9284ce8cc35075805847fc8007f8929b735727c7007af1be8a616f6c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3b498b805cfecc887406360fc747d0e7ae6728948bc094d47d055a21a1b2a75b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1994-03-23T17:05:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c271374df68d68160b3220dae4942ff5f093c5f04d73ee1b4e13cf17034194b5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9403144",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}