Pith Number

pith:LHTODLAE

pith:2009:LHTODLAED3Q77VF6JPXESDO2HF

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Dynamical Vacuum Selection in String Theory

Andrew B. Royston, David Kutasov, Jock McOrist, Oleg Lunin

arxiv:0909.3319 v2 · 2009-09-17 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LHTODLAED3Q77VF6JPXESDO2HF}

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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	2026-05-18T02:11:46.664148Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

59e6e1ac041ee1ffd4be4bee490dda395a583a0467240fbfb2ffea25290083ad

Aliases

arxiv: 0909.3319 · arxiv_version: 0909.3319v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0909.3319 · pith_short_12: LHTODLAED3Q7 · pith_short_16: LHTODLAED3Q77VF6 · pith_short_8: LHTODLAE

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/LHTODLAED3Q77VF6JPXESDO2HF \
  | 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: 59e6e1ac041ee1ffd4be4bee490dda395a583a0467240fbfb2ffea25290083ad

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "bc7f21b95e55c5f11095516a0c0958960813b50a8cff6421da1b5169ab142203",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2009-09-17T21:22:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c47e5638751a08e5606076f5f8187076d611cf3d8080c2b6cd9dd6536c5b0586"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0909.3319",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}