Pith Number

pith:SCMQNXKK

pith:1993:SCMQNXKKWNKDOP2X6YFMPSWIWS

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Quantum Background Independence of Closed String Field Theory

Ashoke Sen, Barton Zwiebach

arxiv:hep-th/9311009 v1 · 1993-11-01 · hep-th

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\pithnumber{SCMQNXKKWNKDOP2X6YFMPSWIWS}

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4 Citations open

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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.

Cited by

4 papers in Pith

Closed String Field Theory in 25.99 Dimensions

Toward a worldsheet theory of entanglement entropy

Higher Connection in Open String Field Theory

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-04T15:49:41.695052Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

909906dd4ab354373f57f60ac7cac8b4bf61803fda889b8115cfc02a7c3f599a

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9311009 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9311009v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9311009 · pith_short_12: SCMQNXKKWNKD · pith_short_16: SCMQNXKKWNKDOP2X · pith_short_8: SCMQNXKK

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/SCMQNXKKWNKDOP2X6YFMPSWIWS \
  | 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: 909906dd4ab354373f57f60ac7cac8b4bf61803fda889b8115cfc02a7c3f599a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a8c2f82e7a17701a4f27c196020ce0c72df60d9999f59c36098aae0ec482f155",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1993-11-01T22:10:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9a3db9b241017688243a2d67b488ebf87ea0018198ea29a8bee80e6d54b8ddea"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9311009",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}