Pith Number

pith:NGKK6WD2

pith:2008:NGKK6WD2I6FQL4LT2NXYRNDTWX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

SDiff Gauge Theory and the M2 Condensate

Igor A. Bandos, Paul K. Townsend

arxiv:0808.1583 v3 · 2008-08-11 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NGKK6WD2I6FQL4LT2NXYRNDTWX}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-07-04T15:37:28.247423Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6994af587a478b05f173d36f88b473b5d69248313e03bbbc30d2218418db56f4

Aliases

arxiv: 0808.1583 · arxiv_version: 0808.1583v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0808.1583 · pith_short_12: NGKK6WD2I6FQ · pith_short_16: NGKK6WD2I6FQL4LT · pith_short_8: NGKK6WD2

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/NGKK6WD2I6FQL4LT2NXYRNDTWX \
  | 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: 6994af587a478b05f173d36f88b473b5d69248313e03bbbc30d2218418db56f4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "24ee5c83d37dd52ab56d02307a3c8754512633e672bf13bc48cac926e0de0083",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2008-08-11T21:02:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "458278bfd7a38324ec3f95ff758bd63db790963a8282cfd499cf21ed3857fb6f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0808.1583",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}