Pith Number

pith:EEWO7LE3

pith:1996:EEWO7LE3ON7P542IU3UU6XAMDQ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Quaternions and M(atrix) theory in spaces with boundaries

Lubos Motl

arxiv:hep-th/9612198 v3 · 1996-12-18 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{EEWO7LE3ON7P542IU3UU6XAMDQ}

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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	2026-07-04T15:07:54.478368Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

212cefac9b737efef348a6e94f5c0c1c323e22f5a500f2f258b933b797ac1c3e

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9612198 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9612198v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9612198 · pith_short_12: EEWO7LE3ON7P · pith_short_16: EEWO7LE3ON7P542I · pith_short_8: EEWO7LE3

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/EEWO7LE3ON7P542IU3UU6XAMDQ \
  | 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: 212cefac9b737efef348a6e94f5c0c1c323e22f5a500f2f258b933b797ac1c3e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a464fdecd4cc5220fefa73ac5f106dbb3697c03be26bb93a03e402761edcf6f8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1996-12-18T22:19:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6f0c0406976d23211d87e97b238bbac59a960a79038f98e7524b6b02ceee5141"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9612198",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}