Pith Number

pith:N5UXDLSR

pith:2016:N5UXDLSR4YIAHX6WILVJXPLD6F

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On Exceptional Instanton Strings

Guglielmo Lockhart, Michele Del Zotto

arxiv:1609.00310 v3 · 2016-09-01 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{N5UXDLSR4YIAHX6WILVJXPLD6F}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T00:32:14.773356Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6f6971ae51e61003dfd642ea9bbd63f1795b82f9f10c949a0b61859a4e850c57

Aliases

arxiv: 1609.00310 · arxiv_version: 1609.00310v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1609.00310 · pith_short_12: N5UXDLSR4YIA · pith_short_16: N5UXDLSR4YIAHX6W · pith_short_8: N5UXDLSR

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/N5UXDLSR4YIAHX6WILVJXPLD6F \
  | 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: 6f6971ae51e61003dfd642ea9bbd63f1795b82f9f10c949a0b61859a4e850c57

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "52e88339db6c1d69933b447a9300c8d751a93340e45959bc30c365093d684bd5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2016-09-01T16:43:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "33cf85cfb53c5ca141cec96d94bb7e1fc056a9445ddf7f2767ec3de8c2dc3075"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1609.00310",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}