Pith Number

pith:A4WOAHK4

pith:2000:A4WOAHK4ZH6CKT324UG3ZLFBQL

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Derivation of K-Theory from M-Theory

Diuliu-Emanuel Diaconescu, Edward Witten, Gregory Moore

arxiv:hep-th/0005091 v2 · 2000-05-10 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{A4WOAHK4ZH6CKT324UG3ZLFBQL}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-07-04T14:31:21.175369Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

072ce01d5cc9fc254f7ae50dbcaca182e94c7c1c9d6f6be72326beb63ce40e63

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/0005091 · arxiv_version: hep-th/0005091v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0005091 · pith_short_12: A4WOAHK4ZH6C · pith_short_16: A4WOAHK4ZH6CKT32 · pith_short_8: A4WOAHK4

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/A4WOAHK4ZH6CKT324UG3ZLFBQL \
  | 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: 072ce01d5cc9fc254f7ae50dbcaca182e94c7c1c9d6f6be72326beb63ce40e63

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1ded9cbf0de3bdc1ebd4bf6978cce0d586ac9431fa0f129c50819d4133a916a9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2000-05-10T14:45:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "72bc63b3d6ffe1178105b5c6635fa2ed1a150ad939ae8249b56eec203d58b38d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/0005091",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}