Pith Number

pith:B4G54SOU

pith:1996:B4G54SOUC2ZCXSU2QBOTKRBCHE

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

D-branes in the light-cone gauge and broken symmetries

Michael Gutperle (DAMTP, UK), University of Cambridge

arxiv:hep-th/9611135 v1 · 1996-11-18 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{B4G54SOUC2ZCXSU2QBOTKRBCHE}

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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	2026-05-18T00:54:21.074138Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0f0dde49d416b22bca9a805d3544223928c778c026fadd6e3f59a70679719fba

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9611135 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9611135v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9611135 · pith_short_12: B4G54SOUC2ZC · pith_short_16: B4G54SOUC2ZCXSU2 · pith_short_8: B4G54SOU

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/B4G54SOUC2ZCXSU2QBOTKRBCHE \
  | 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: 0f0dde49d416b22bca9a805d3544223928c778c026fadd6e3f59a70679719fba

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ad40b8eec025823ebb33e367b3b49c8e880c8957e44e6a58e2657c6d6b7a6086",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1996-11-18T18:15:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fc1d9d93bdd907aefe4d7bd7cfa93db2cc405f96c69377c6e605049f5fd59909"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9611135",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}