Pith Number

pith:NO7S2WQU

pith:2018:NO7S2WQUCI63YWOCP53X436HIR

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

To gauge or not to gauge?

Alexey Milekhin, Juan Maldacena

arxiv:1802.00428 v2 · 2018-02-01 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NO7S2WQUCI63YWOCP53X436HIR}

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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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3 papers in Pith

An effective field theory approach to the sign problem in BFSS

Regge trajectories from the adjoint sector of Matrix Quantum Mechanics

Instanton condensation and a new phase of BPS black holes

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:16:26.690863Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6bbf2d5a14123dbc59c27f777e6fc7445e10dcea4b090eaa62e1c64c324c7956

Aliases

arxiv: 1802.00428 · arxiv_version: 1802.00428v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1802.00428 · pith_short_12: NO7S2WQUCI63 · pith_short_16: NO7S2WQUCI63YWOC · pith_short_8: NO7S2WQU

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/NO7S2WQUCI63YWOCP53X436HIR \
  | 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: 6bbf2d5a14123dbc59c27f777e6fc7445e10dcea4b090eaa62e1c64c324c7956

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9ddf96a87637c7f7b0de913d5beb535f2c4a6a40e1a00ac67e0588fb9a0f2ebe",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2018-02-01T18:41:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "47c440dde1cecb8238b36436763382c97eeec998ebfc26cf5c5b8d3c4f19d0b5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1802.00428",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}