Pith Number

pith:A3O5WROQ

pith:1995:A3O5WROQEV7M7TVDNCO2QFPP2N

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Small Instantons in String Theory

Edward Witten

arxiv:hep-th/9511030 v1 · 1995-11-04 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{A3O5WROQEV7M7TVDNCO2QFPP2N}

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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.

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1 paper in Pith

Non-supersymmetric branes and discrete topological terms

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-04T17:25:46.826146Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

06dddb45d0257ecfcea3689da815efd35c44b4e0bb44bb3a2f8a8813f7077c13

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9511030 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9511030v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9511030 · pith_short_12: A3O5WROQEV7M · pith_short_16: A3O5WROQEV7M7TVD · pith_short_8: A3O5WROQ

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/A3O5WROQEV7M7TVDNCO2QFPP2N \
  | 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: 06dddb45d0257ecfcea3689da815efd35c44b4e0bb44bb3a2f8a8813f7077c13

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c5751a2bd35c3273d844317fa4391e2aa8fc2027223cee3b04e006a2720caceb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1995-11-04T16:29:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b01cde8df628c584dfb3c4f8f1620b3f3fc5b436a118aab5b649b7d8c57877f4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9511030",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}