Pith Number

pith:4DLXUWOI

pith:1996:4DLXUWOIE6XTXGFX42ABEWNRCO

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Microcanonical D-branes and Back Reaction

Esko Keski-Vakkuri, Per Kraus (Cal Tech)

arxiv:hep-th/9610045 v2 · 1996-10-08 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4DLXUWOIE6XTXGFX42ABEWNRCO}

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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	2026-07-04T17:25:41.858039Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e0d77a59c827af3b98b7e6801259b113b0f729099420d4b3e93f9c0b7486d240

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9610045 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9610045v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9610045 · pith_short_12: 4DLXUWOIE6XT · pith_short_16: 4DLXUWOIE6XTXGFX · pith_short_8: 4DLXUWOI

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/4DLXUWOIE6XTXGFX42ABEWNRCO \
  | 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: e0d77a59c827af3b98b7e6801259b113b0f729099420d4b3e93f9c0b7486d240

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "aafa1f800c0789fa852f35daacc4db2b647e770a59ec2d67aed86fa5b294a264",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1996-10-08T05:44:08Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2557c9c10806bda481ff5bf7b7a4fffa13037f2767fac72b74d70925d362604a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9610045",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}