Pith Number

pith:LATARN2U

pith:2001:LATARN2UPHC6BWFESMX47RA3JP

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Large N Matrix Mechanics on the Light-Cone

Charles B. Thorn, M. B. Halpern

arxiv:hep-th/0111280 v2 · 2001-11-29 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LATARN2UPHC6BWFESMX47RA3JP}

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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	2026-05-18T02:36:11.350146Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

582608b75479c5e0d8a4932fcfc41b4bfcef55b76eb2282c6a6a9aebd5186502

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/0111280 · arxiv_version: hep-th/0111280v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0111280 · pith_short_12: LATARN2UPHC6 · pith_short_16: LATARN2UPHC6BWFE · pith_short_8: LATARN2U

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/LATARN2UPHC6BWFESMX47RA3JP \
  | 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: 582608b75479c5e0d8a4932fcfc41b4bfcef55b76eb2282c6a6a9aebd5186502

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9a61ce70e5bf279581ca6f13b53a3cdc4b1b4d3c4fee537c2edf412a9bb23ff1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2001-11-29T23:15:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "88de7d24a53e7a49c40a4f81b93f3fbed2e489c07bec425a8a4234b677fc9851"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/0111280",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}