Pith Number

pith:AKUF3P2R

pith:1997:AKUF3P2R7QB7BNGACLDDKSTKG5

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Branes, Orientifolds and the Creation of Elementary Strings

G. Lifschytz, M.R. Gaberdiel, O. Bergman

arxiv:hep-th/9705130 v3 · 1997-05-18 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{AKUF3P2R7QB7BNGACLDDKSTKG5}

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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	2026-07-04T16:05:35.608157Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

02a85dbf51fc03f0b4c012c6354a6a374cbf302bbfabd14680032061655d3b83

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9705130 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9705130v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9705130 · pith_short_12: AKUF3P2R7QB7 · pith_short_16: AKUF3P2R7QB7BNGA · pith_short_8: AKUF3P2R

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/AKUF3P2R7QB7BNGACLDDKSTKG5 \
  | 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: 02a85dbf51fc03f0b4c012c6354a6a374cbf302bbfabd14680032061655d3b83

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "38e5e1e03e89a33ffb497e193366aa57ba3204a55fd527618dfe007df99d2f4b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1997-05-18T20:41:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cf19088f7eef2ccff68d08b9f472984d0e959bc52156653a3df6358acbe7fd31"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9705130",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}