Pith Number

pith:JSSTCYQ4

pith:1997:JSSTCYQ4V2XQMCQDHHRYI4CEZK

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Spherical membranes in Matrix theory

Daniel Kabat (IAS), Washington Taylor (Princeton)

arxiv:hep-th/9711078 v3 · 1997-11-11 · hep-th

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\pithnumber{JSSTCYQ4V2XQMCQDHHRYI4CEZK}

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Quantum spacetime and quantum fluctuations in the IKKT model at weak coupling

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First computed	2026-07-04T15:27:30.176182Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4ca531621caeaf060a0339e3847044ca90c793ba74b4f8080b1d160c345d8ef5

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9711078 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9711078v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9711078 · pith_short_12: JSSTCYQ4V2XQ · pith_short_16: JSSTCYQ4V2XQMCQD · pith_short_8: JSSTCYQ4

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/JSSTCYQ4V2XQMCQDHHRYI4CEZK \
  | 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: 4ca531621caeaf060a0339e3847044ca90c793ba74b4f8080b1d160c345d8ef5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "460feb694279ebe6eab53c1ba2803ef58e0e3efdad16d3a89064a66764809763",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1997-11-11T20:22:50Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1089feebeca2455570fea6d3ad09a919e4b60a7d1e543c3edfe307aa6395aeb7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9711078",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}