Pith Number

pith:4U6GILJV

pith:1997:4U6GILJVNOTDP2AY4RNNPVDFVS

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Heterotic Matrix String Theory

David A. Lowe

arxiv:hep-th/9704041 v2 · 1997-04-06 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4U6GILJVNOTDP2AY4RNNPVDFVS}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-07-04T16:05:27.036917Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e53c642d356ba637e818e45ad7d465acaf58f3c94bad6036f0ada72d38505202

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9704041 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9704041v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9704041 · pith_short_12: 4U6GILJVNOTD · pith_short_16: 4U6GILJVNOTDP2AY · pith_short_8: 4U6GILJV

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/4U6GILJVNOTDP2AY4RNNPVDFVS \
  | 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: e53c642d356ba637e818e45ad7d465acaf58f3c94bad6036f0ada72d38505202

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "08276130d3acd938c4a455c0b2354b2a9bf5e334b696f955ce77240c099e78c3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1997-04-06T23:39:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a31ae62378c7192aa6d466db4049c0e7ba90d1a01476bebe3bf90c95010920ea"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9704041",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}