Pith Number

pith:KQAEGDOW

pith:2002:KQAEGDOWXK5AF4HLYOZKHPSVBF

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

(De)constructing Intersecting M5-branes

I. Kirsch, J. Erdmenger, N. R. Constable, Z. Guralnik

arxiv:hep-th/0212136 v1 · 2002-12-12 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KQAEGDOWXK5AF4HLYOZKHPSVBF}

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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	2026-05-18T04:34:17.201807Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5400430dd6baba02f0ebc3b2a3be550945c7ff088b8c94f48936c2ffd5b07a3a

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/0212136 · arxiv_version: hep-th/0212136v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0212136 · pith_short_12: KQAEGDOWXK5A · pith_short_16: KQAEGDOWXK5AF4HL · pith_short_8: KQAEGDOW

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/KQAEGDOWXK5AF4HLYOZKHPSVBF \
  | 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: 5400430dd6baba02f0ebc3b2a3be550945c7ff088b8c94f48936c2ffd5b07a3a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0db2dabe6aa1e67813fc8ddfcd6c6a32a517d747d6cc535e52f65524499b6180",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2002-12-12T15:24:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "538255b39a03f8a461c30b57dea18f4ae9f278d26c77f5c41fb6451621b7d41a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/0212136",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}