Pith Number

pith:PB7MBGTL

pith:1998:PB7MBGTLITYRWKWS5H7INSBPQL

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Berry's Connection and USp(2k) Matrix Model

H. Itoyama, T. Matsuo

arxiv:hep-th/9806139 v2 · 1998-06-17 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PB7MBGTLITYRWKWS5H7INSBPQL}

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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	2026-07-04T16:09:49.992768Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

787ec09a6b44f11b2ad2e9fe86c82f82db7f5fa4dc55b5e83f345bbdc703c23b

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9806139 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9806139v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9806139 · pith_short_12: PB7MBGTLITYR · pith_short_16: PB7MBGTLITYRWKWS · pith_short_8: PB7MBGTL

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/PB7MBGTLITYRWKWS5H7INSBPQL \
  | 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: 787ec09a6b44f11b2ad2e9fe86c82f82db7f5fa4dc55b5e83f345bbdc703c23b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "35aa1e1056e9698cdb271fe147eff7eb1913f57a38d5ce03a067bdf3053d635a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1998-06-17T16:22:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4421c6654f6dc358fa54c8b1efb2037ee4d7ffb615c6ba57ee7393908c94491d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9806139",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}