Pith Number

pith:6UJMXS3I

pith:1996:6UJMXS3I2ZAVEZGYA2WZ7FGG7P

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Monster Sporadic Group and a Theory Underlying Superstring Models

George Chapline

arxiv:hep-th/9609162 v1 · 1996-09-18 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6UJMXS3I2ZAVEZGYA2WZ7FGG7P}

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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	2026-07-04T14:32:54.782879Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f512cbcb68d6415264d806ad9f94c6fbffe1e2e9670ce9db4e428028b16526a8

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9609162 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9609162v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9609162 · pith_short_12: 6UJMXS3I2ZAV · pith_short_16: 6UJMXS3I2ZAVEZGY · pith_short_8: 6UJMXS3I

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/6UJMXS3I2ZAVEZGYA2WZ7FGG7P \
  | 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: f512cbcb68d6415264d806ad9f94c6fbffe1e2e9670ce9db4e428028b16526a8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "370bd69b00c1b89a4c9af17102183024229a2623526b9910ea00866a2bb23ff7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1996-09-18T23:20:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d648dbf2c0e5e9bce856f86d8afeb4a180479b98e8dada9d34d3cb03462ee616"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9609162",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}