Pith Number

pith:MKY6BKV2

pith:1996:MKY6BKV2AVFPPGRX4MWCIDAJRS

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Small Instantons, del Pezzo Surfaces and Type I' theory

C. Vafa, M.R. Douglas, S. Katz

arxiv:hep-th/9609071 v2 · 1996-09-09 · hep-th · math.AG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MKY6BKV2AVFPPGRX4MWCIDAJRS}

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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.

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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:03:34.765212Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

62b1e0aaba054af79a37e32c240c098cbd60296df8e7384b18030e7bde798c6b

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9609071 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9609071v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9609071 · pith_short_12: MKY6BKV2AVFP · pith_short_16: MKY6BKV2AVFPPGRX · pith_short_8: MKY6BKV2

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/MKY6BKV2AVFPPGRX4MWCIDAJRS \
  | 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: 62b1e0aaba054af79a37e32c240c098cbd60296df8e7384b18030e7bde798c6b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "48d9b2d73bfa2e3f8da7214580a07ffdbe8b9cff2e0a1bcefdd04fc618a033a0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.AG"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1996-09-09T15:04:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b0cd693c9906ad16192d59bd0431eb48035fb584c96ac735597c7ad2ab8f09d2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9609071",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}