Pith Number

pith:LBRTLKXI

pith:2001:LBRTLKXIZGNAVUIDPTBUSJ6EBB

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Anomaly Cancellation: A Retrospective From a Modern Perspective

John H. Schwarz

arxiv:hep-th/0107059 v1 · 2001-07-09 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LBRTLKXIZGNAVUIDPTBUSJ6EBB}

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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	2026-05-18T00:37:28.092455Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

586335aae8c99a0ad1037cc34927c408700950b566c87160c1fdde804d81827e

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/0107059 · arxiv_version: hep-th/0107059v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0107059 · pith_short_12: LBRTLKXIZGNA · pith_short_16: LBRTLKXIZGNAVUID · pith_short_8: LBRTLKXI

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/LBRTLKXIZGNAVUIDPTBUSJ6EBB \
  | 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: 586335aae8c99a0ad1037cc34927c408700950b566c87160c1fdde804d81827e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a7cfb388d9d8259cadcd30dd1c3d57fa0d7d097dedf0e2529016be7dced156e8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2001-07-09T21:51:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f166f73846754469441e52aa84881e4345faf143b8450471920225bfe11152ac"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/0107059",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}