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pith:AVBQOIKR

pith:1997:AVBQOIKRAAJWTRUGXS37BTS4YT
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Strings from Matrices

Nathan Seiberg, Tom Banks

arxiv:hep-th/9702187 v2 · 1997-02-26 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{AVBQOIKRAAJWTRUGXS37BTS4YT}

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Builder pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature Pith Ed25519 (pith-v1-2026-05) · public key
Schema pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0543072151001369c686bcb7f0ce5cc4cec8c362ff68a5b5959aa517309e3844

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9702187 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9702187v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9702187 · pith_short_12: AVBQOIKRAAJW · pith_short_16: AVBQOIKRAAJWTRUG · pith_short_8: AVBQOIKR
Agent API
Verify this Pith Number yourself
curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/AVBQOIKRAAJWTRUGXS37BTS4YT \
  | 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: 0543072151001369c686bcb7f0ce5cc4cec8c362ff68a5b5959aa517309e3844
Canonical record JSON
{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "718ab6f98a6309515bb85b251fc374c283f0692808d8eef0fe223d16fd5254f3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1997-02-26T15:29:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2b8f9707bfdedb23ad1606cb5578f9ac11a809084cd5a11125133ce3a6cfa49e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9702187",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}