Pith Number

pith:5PFZS3IH

pith:1998:5PFZS3IH2BSNXGPLZSD3PKS7CI

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

On Least Action D-Branes

Eliezer Rabinovici, Gor Sarkissian, Shmuel Elitzur

arxiv:hep-th/9807161 v3 · 1998-07-21 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5PFZS3IH2BSNXGPLZSD3PKS7CI}

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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	2026-05-18T04:35:15.795286Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ebcb996d07d064db99ebcc87b7aa5f122a9a5b95ffc42cb30c6ee87608e22bcb

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9807161 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9807161v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9807161 · pith_short_12: 5PFZS3IH2BSN · pith_short_16: 5PFZS3IH2BSNXGPL · pith_short_8: 5PFZS3IH

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/5PFZS3IH2BSNXGPLZSD3PKS7CI \
  | 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: ebcb996d07d064db99ebcc87b7aa5f122a9a5b95ffc42cb30c6ee87608e22bcb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "90df48c35bf68829233bd43a221ca41814aebc6f8da227fbb4483febb3271bb7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1998-07-21T16:37:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7fb4249af40e27640e3e0ffb8f3db90ea75014613ee436ce0940411be44f8cde"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9807161",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}