Pith Number

pith:J7TF4GKP

pith:1996:J7TF4GKPZMCWXAJVK6F5T2YIYK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Self-Dual Superstring in Six Dimensions

John H. Schwarz

arxiv:hep-th/9604171 v1 · 1996-04-27 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{J7TF4GKPZMCWXAJVK6F5T2YIYK}

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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	2026-07-04T14:32:52.370695Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4fe65e194fcb056b8135578bd9eb08c28bbea97561c75dc2799abc242cb2b7c5

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9604171 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9604171v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9604171 · pith_short_12: J7TF4GKPZMCW · pith_short_16: J7TF4GKPZMCWXAJV · pith_short_8: J7TF4GKP

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/J7TF4GKPZMCWXAJVK6F5T2YIYK \
  | 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: 4fe65e194fcb056b8135578bd9eb08c28bbea97561c75dc2799abc242cb2b7c5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d2a4f5be63f2d8a58c8a6153dfbf1d83bbeaebfc0b4b6a01977afedfb48f6afc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1996-04-27T01:03:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bb31c2052309887defb59670e7d2b45409048d9157ddf0f6a04b578becff2947"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9604171",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}