Pith Number

pith:3DEPIRST

pith:2001:3DEPIRSTR7RHMWWEPMS64SARRW

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Past, puzzles, and promise of 6-branes

Donald Marolf

arxiv:hep-th/0112137 v1 · 2001-12-16 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3DEPIRSTR7RHMWWEPMS64SARRW}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-07-04T16:28:12.401142Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d8c8f446538fe2765ac47b25ee48118d9f27aa747d58991912544cd9c629fe6f

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/0112137 · arxiv_version: hep-th/0112137v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0112137 · pith_short_12: 3DEPIRSTR7RH · pith_short_16: 3DEPIRSTR7RHMWWE · pith_short_8: 3DEPIRST

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/3DEPIRSTR7RHMWWEPMS64SARRW \
  | 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: d8c8f446538fe2765ac47b25ee48118d9f27aa747d58991912544cd9c629fe6f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e58d50532d0a5467638308b0f4f9bd0901f048a673b37af3533d910ae80ba1ca",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2001-12-16T21:17:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2d883e75c1eb7f6e52be6a44d35a9bf6bb9a0c8b246069f067156a25fec3b973"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/0112137",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}