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pith:1997:KLQNXBNBSJ76JD5NFMHUCTFSQA
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Why is the Matrix Model Correct?

Nathan Seiberg

arxiv:hep-th/9710009 v1 · 1997-10-01 · hep-th

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\pithnumber{KLQNXBNBSJ76JD5NFMHUCTFSQA}

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Canonical hash

52e0db85a1927fe48fad2b0f414cb28001a35b11ca8b4bc2c96af35e993938ea

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9710009 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9710009v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9710009 · pith_short_12: KLQNXBNBSJ76 · pith_short_16: KLQNXBNBSJ76JD5N · pith_short_8: KLQNXBNB
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Verify this Pith Number yourself
curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/KLQNXBNBSJ76JD5NFMHUCTFSQA \
  | 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: 52e0db85a1927fe48fad2b0f414cb28001a35b11ca8b4bc2c96af35e993938ea
Canonical record JSON
{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c40d5a781e1e7702941059a054c7341d9668bbd64487b38e975d2d4a68cec7b5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1997-10-01T21:28:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9e7bf12bed0dc3773256e02a9bb9a883199acd16fc2125edc9b822d62539808f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9710009",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}