Pith Number

pith:CTP2YFD5

pith:1996:CTP2YFD5UL36TMYCV3KSICPENS

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Five-branes in M(atrix) Theory

Micha Berkooz, Michael R. Douglas

arxiv:hep-th/9610236 v1 · 1996-10-30 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{CTP2YFD5UL36TMYCV3KSICPENS}

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Record completeness

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5 Replications open

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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.

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First computed	2026-07-04T16:02:25.036234Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

14dfac147da2f7e9b302aed52409e46cb112ad2783fd34fa3b68376287bfdfd8

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9610236 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9610236v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9610236 · pith_short_12: CTP2YFD5UL36 · pith_short_16: CTP2YFD5UL36TMYC · pith_short_8: CTP2YFD5

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/CTP2YFD5UL36TMYCV3KSICPENS \
  | 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: 14dfac147da2f7e9b302aed52409e46cb112ad2783fd34fa3b68376287bfdfd8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9ee99371e086932e87ff728a4ce7ff7ab37cccdd840b0aa6488e64ce22e1788c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1996-10-30T01:29:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bba2dfb7deaaff71f38968a93cd1d68c914a65ac2a6a707aabc80d9022aa58f1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9610236",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}