Pith Number

pith:7TAV23N7

pith:1996:7TAV23N7DB4VBP6WOB5RKMIHTL

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Branes from Matrices

Nathan Seiberg, Stephen Shenker, Tom Banks

arxiv:hep-th/9612157 v2 · 1996-12-13 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{7TAV23N7DB4VBP6WOB5RKMIHTL}

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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	2026-07-04T15:49:42.290021Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

fcc15d6dbf187950bfd6707b1531079af1ae095b9487d1db6d10f5382e81d6a1

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9612157 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9612157v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9612157 · pith_short_12: 7TAV23N7DB4V · pith_short_16: 7TAV23N7DB4VBP6W · pith_short_8: 7TAV23N7

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/7TAV23N7DB4VBP6WOB5RKMIHTL \
  | 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: fcc15d6dbf187950bfd6707b1531079af1ae095b9487d1db6d10f5382e81d6a1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f2f11d8e52a4d755a606451f9fb20ceeaa0448859bbc378a136f0050d4cc93e8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1996-12-13T20:00:25Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0b22efa2889b636363799bb5c55b4e4fe489d581bbb7ed864e3579ec51b997ba"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9612157",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}