Pith Number

pith:2B5L7SAY

pith:1997:2B5L7SAYA6TCYYGVKF7KFIQYL6

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Towards a Non-perturbative Formulation of IIB Superstrings by Matrix Models

A. Fayyazuddin, D.J. Smith, K. Zarembo, P. Olesen, Y. Makeenko

arxiv:hep-th/9703038 v4 · 1997-03-05 · hep-th

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Path integral for the closed superstring and the matrix model

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-04T16:05:24.988078Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d07abfc81807a62c60d5517ea2a2185fb7dd7bc6a9c399390532048853b52e3d

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9703038 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9703038v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9703038 · pith_short_12: 2B5L7SAYA6TC · pith_short_16: 2B5L7SAYA6TCYYGV · pith_short_8: 2B5L7SAY

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/2B5L7SAYA6TCYYGVKF7KFIQYL6 \
  | 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: d07abfc81807a62c60d5517ea2a2185fb7dd7bc6a9c399390532048853b52e3d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7cc11c11c670b386a3c6262f32e5cb1ff51db3669aa50d7b3d153a4974bddbee",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1997-03-05T20:45:30Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "05509547da112c3d1b3c9709bac0128031e5bac3614902daa742529b646caf68"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9703038",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}