Pith Number

pith:KQ3KSUJA

pith:1999:KQ3KSUJAWLBAXOWICZV75H62LQ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Instantons in N=4 Sp(N) and SO(N) theories and the AdS/CFT correspondence

Michael P. Mattis, Timothy J. Hollowood, Valentin V. Khoze

arxiv:hep-th/9910118 v1 · 1999-10-15 · hep-th

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:05:54.794941Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5436a95120b2c20bbac8166bfe9fda5c28310f2acde6fceb148f23b19cdfa8cb

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9910118 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9910118v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9910118 · pith_short_12: KQ3KSUJAWLBA · pith_short_16: KQ3KSUJAWLBAXOWI · pith_short_8: KQ3KSUJA

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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/KQ3KSUJAWLBAXOWICZV75H62LQ \
  | 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: 5436a95120b2c20bbac8166bfe9fda5c28310f2acde6fceb148f23b19cdfa8cb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2d62be7c4079f2b470eea294e2bf239c6596c4cdf64bb43dfc3973da91c27860",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1999-10-15T15:21:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f9b54668aa13ed40bc0137ea803a9cf420329d05d21a19b83703107d7f825c17"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9910118",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}