Pith Number

pith:R6JNLLCK

pith:1998:R6JNLLCKQZOOGTYZTRH3ZVWAON

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Matrix Theory S-Matrix

Andrew K. Waldron, Jan C. Plefka, Marco Serone

arxiv:hep-th/9806081 v1 · 1998-06-10 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{R6JNLLCKQZOOGTYZTRH3ZVWAON}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-07-04T16:09:49.512485Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8f92d5ac4a865ce34f199c4fbcd6c073696ba0cbe0797e2e376a96e6ec017285

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9806081 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9806081v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9806081 · pith_short_12: R6JNLLCKQZOO · pith_short_16: R6JNLLCKQZOOGTYZ · pith_short_8: R6JNLLCK

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/R6JNLLCKQZOOGTYZTRH3ZVWAON \
  | 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: 8f92d5ac4a865ce34f199c4fbcd6c073696ba0cbe0797e2e376a96e6ec017285

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "554b355fe3eee6e21e44347737834d017a91fc8ef049c4021675874eb36f375a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1998-06-10T22:47:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6dc948e6de73735d7e2ffacb3e2ed4502d498a2871ac04a784e99bbc72efd91a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9806081",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}