Pith Number

pith:IWXSLWSA

pith:1996:IWXSLWSANS3XW5VNS32J2YC6BV

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

D-branes and Short Distances in String Theory

Daniel Kabat, Michael R. Douglas, Philippe Pouliot, Stephen H. Shenker (Rutgers University)

arxiv:hep-th/9608024 v2 · 1996-08-05 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IWXSLWSANS3XW5VNS32J2YC6BV}

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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	2026-07-04T15:27:29.303602Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

45af25da406cb77b76ad96f49d605e0d7f0bbd0e0c7d284677cb7be0da8d6ab3

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9608024 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9608024v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9608024 · pith_short_12: IWXSLWSANS3X · pith_short_16: IWXSLWSANS3XW5VN · pith_short_8: IWXSLWSA

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/IWXSLWSANS3XW5VNS32J2YC6BV \
  | 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: 45af25da406cb77b76ad96f49d605e0d7f0bbd0e0c7d284677cb7be0da8d6ab3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fcab492a4b3b617bdd0fbed56605099155acf0e6edd6384e465696f51e441dc5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1996-08-05T23:41:50Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8e363f663ceb16a46f9cb601db536140f7aef31e049339e3635f03e229d61dd8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9608024",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}