Pith Number

pith:JMAJ6W2S

pith:1997:JMAJ6W2ST5Q5LG6Z4SZZDFX4MM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Scattering of zero branes off elementary strings in Matrix Theory

Rajesh Gopakumar, Sanjaye Ramgoolam

arxiv:hep-th/9708022 v2 · 1997-08-05 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JMAJ6W2ST5Q5LG6Z4SZZDFX4MM}

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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	2026-05-18T01:05:55.753382Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4b009f5b529f61d59bd9e4b39196fc630f1c7d9ef146667c4d687fcd67f16c93

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9708022 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9708022v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9708022 · pith_short_12: JMAJ6W2ST5Q5 · pith_short_16: JMAJ6W2ST5Q5LG6Z · pith_short_8: JMAJ6W2S

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/JMAJ6W2ST5Q5LG6Z4SZZDFX4MM \
  | 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: 4b009f5b529f61d59bd9e4b39196fc630f1c7d9ef146667c4d687fcd67f16c93

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1c84fbe3ddd7d8fd2367f84fbea82722747712262dc09917d5b9f3c00bbf489d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1997-08-05T16:37:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2e9c3af51afd42f2059e7ec677c45e3e75822162e1a5b8be7dfa63241f722ba2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9708022",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}