Pith Number

pith:3ISSKPFH

pith:1999:3ISSKPFHPQGHHX42GAYEG5GYBD

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Branes with Background Fields in Boundary State Formalism

D. Kamani, H. Arfaei

arxiv:hep-th/9909167 v1 · 1999-09-23 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3ISSKPFHPQGHHX42GAYEG5GYBD}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T02:35:54.184598Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

da25253ca77c0c73df9a30304374d808d58ec89da9abdff43a098f3f1acec9c1

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9909167 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9909167v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9909167 · pith_short_12: 3ISSKPFHPQGH · pith_short_16: 3ISSKPFHPQGHHX42 · pith_short_8: 3ISSKPFH

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/3ISSKPFHPQGHHX42GAYEG5GYBD \
  | 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: da25253ca77c0c73df9a30304374d808d58ec89da9abdff43a098f3f1acec9c1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "848915d121f3502280832c1bd3ae49c4ed87bb285957ffbb479952fee312a6fa",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1999-09-23T10:20:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8d26b85f17faf020c39dd7d7e61f1731841c4c3c1b1022070cdda97b8a636ee6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9909167",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}