Pith Number

pith:P42FOQSP

pith:1999:P42FOQSPSOLRXUKYC5UTFDBFAR

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

TASI Lectures on Matrix Theory

Tom Banks

arxiv:hep-th/9911068 v2 · 1999-11-10 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{P42FOQSPSOLRXUKYC5UTFDBFAR}

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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	2026-07-04T14:33:32.538320Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7f3457424f93971bd1581769328c2504719a0d18d42fcd4532b9ac2bb7ce6ad2

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9911068 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9911068v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9911068 · pith_short_12: P42FOQSPSOLR · pith_short_16: P42FOQSPSOLRXUKY · pith_short_8: P42FOQSP

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/P42FOQSPSOLRXUKYC5UTFDBFAR \
  | 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: 7f3457424f93971bd1581769328c2504719a0d18d42fcd4532b9ac2bb7ce6ad2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0c2ae86c2702920ede464755af6ff5b4ca1ecec195dfdabe275f363c98cf49e4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1999-11-10T20:51:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "27a413bba308f5c9a72cb4a21813bf0954f850ebf653512213a0201f897f5f23"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9911068",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}