Pith Number

pith:43GM6TWF

pith:1997:43GM6TWFHTTFOU6N2ZD6EKWWUX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Review of Matrix Theory

Daniela Bigatti, Leonard Susskind

arxiv:hep-th/9712072 v1 · 1997-12-06 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{43GM6TWFHTTFOU6N2ZD6EKWWUX}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-07-04T14:33:09.204806Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e6cccf4ec53ce65753cdd647e22ad6a5de31a5fd9ad3e6c7bd2643ed8c51244a

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9712072 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9712072v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9712072 · pith_short_12: 43GM6TWFHTTF · pith_short_16: 43GM6TWFHTTFOU6N · pith_short_8: 43GM6TWF

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/43GM6TWFHTTFOU6N2ZD6EKWWUX \
  | 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: e6cccf4ec53ce65753cdd647e22ad6a5de31a5fd9ad3e6c7bd2643ed8c51244a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f0570207902d8bd044f400f197172c195d57617f09de1cb38905ec35bd00260c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1997-12-06T20:48:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "38f0e76a81113d35d3384f81173483cb00ab86505504a727c14774c43eb2dea6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9712072",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}