Pith Number

pith:4RTE6GJ5

pith:1998:4RTE6GJ56LGH426Z26IACXNOWZ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Spin of the M2-Brane and Spin-Spin Interactions via Probe Techniques

David Kastor, Jennie Traschen, K. Z. Win, Vijay Balasubramanian

arxiv:hep-th/9811037 v1 · 1998-11-03 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4RTE6GJ56LGH426Z26IACXNOWZ}

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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	2026-05-18T01:08:01.385069Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e4664f193df2cc7e6bd9d790015daeb6469cf7fe6ac95b98618efacbbbebc080

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9811037 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9811037v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9811037 · pith_short_12: 4RTE6GJ56LGH · pith_short_16: 4RTE6GJ56LGH426Z · pith_short_8: 4RTE6GJ5

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/4RTE6GJ56LGH426Z26IACXNOWZ \
  | 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: e4664f193df2cc7e6bd9d790015daeb6469cf7fe6ac95b98618efacbbbebc080

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "da74d9b868375735821d46904b3819884b8a8d1b2782eaa34503a816419af2e3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1998-11-03T22:28:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c561215e6ea6c5df914bfdb7711a362e6f70cb7fbede82e6dc3c65a02cedb22c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9811037",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}