Pith Number

pith:IF6KQVLW

pith:1998:IF6KQVLWVJDGUXO7EHBDMIIKWI

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

String Multiplets from an Invariant 2-Brane

Alok Kumar, Sandip Bhattacharyya, Subir Mukhopadhyay

arxiv:hep-th/9812081 v2 · 1998-12-09 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IF6KQVLWVJDGUXO7EHBDMIIKWI}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T01:08:01.362882Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

417ca85576aa466a5ddf21c236210ab22e30c44542c9c2158e455d6aa0b11e17

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9812081 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9812081v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9812081 · pith_short_12: IF6KQVLWVJDG · pith_short_16: IF6KQVLWVJDGUXO7 · pith_short_8: IF6KQVLW

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/IF6KQVLWVJDGUXO7EHBDMIIKWI \
  | 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: 417ca85576aa466a5ddf21c236210ab22e30c44542c9c2158e455d6aa0b11e17

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2c5e37fc92f7c3e3ef31ef7ad3b9c997907bd2282124c7a978f37343ad82eb1d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1998-12-09T18:42:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3c9a98774cc27c7d050ee25f57db70624c8e084d6e3c2d416188c9e3ab980a44"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9812081",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}