Pith Number

pith:XZKFKSNA

pith:1993:XZKFKSNANGD4QTKIWBORMQOAHH

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Example of q-deformed Field Theory

M.Doresic, S.Meljanac, V.Bardek

arxiv:hep-th/9310171 v1 · 1993-10-26 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XZKFKSNANGD4QTKIWBORMQOAHH}

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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	2026-05-18T01:38:42.341273Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

be545549a06987c84d48b05d1641c039c414148e3faa3f5f0c90fa17d354bbf1

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9310171 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9310171v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9310171 · pith_short_12: XZKFKSNANGD4 · pith_short_16: XZKFKSNANGD4QTKI · pith_short_8: XZKFKSNA

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/XZKFKSNANGD4QTKIWBORMQOAHH \
  | 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: be545549a06987c84d48b05d1641c039c414148e3faa3f5f0c90fa17d354bbf1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "103154c80d9675d4368de8f65d42f19fc98754cd0b833a38cc5d70a481abc7e2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1993-10-26T14:33:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "97a2fa7bee8db124e8f93a855093e9ac96a25ad058d4fbd242966d226407c3ee"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9310171",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}