Pith Number

pith:C5PYTJ7G

pith:2012:C5PYTJ7G4LNDX2GUFPTDMKZX3F

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The Conformal Anomaly of M5-Branes

Savdeep Sethi, Travis Maxfield

arxiv:1204.2002 v4 · 2012-04-09 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{C5PYTJ7G4LNDX2GUFPTDMKZX3F}

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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	2026-05-18T01:57:55.571127Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

175f89a7e6e2da3be8d42be6362b37d96081245c7395dd53ffdfe1ed637f97d7

Aliases

arxiv: 1204.2002 · arxiv_version: 1204.2002v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1204.2002 · pith_short_12: C5PYTJ7G4LND · pith_short_16: C5PYTJ7G4LNDX2GU · pith_short_8: C5PYTJ7G

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/C5PYTJ7G4LNDX2GUFPTDMKZX3F \
  | 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: 175f89a7e6e2da3be8d42be6362b37d96081245c7395dd53ffdfe1ed637f97d7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a11c9d3b173814cbd43f31500605f10bcb985df6ef55e6ff35af928c28c6ad83",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2012-04-09T22:34:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f64323157e505d3799b65913f1eeb1b804b58ee72dfe847c3bd9e85f2bfdb611"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1204.2002",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}