Pith Number

pith:RC53J33A

pith:1997:RC53J33ANIIRK23XOEFWVN4XDG

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Another Conjecture about M(atrix) Theory

Leonard Susskind

arxiv:hep-th/9704080 v1 · 1997-04-10 · hep-th

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\pithnumber{RC53J33ANIIRK23XOEFWVN4XDG}

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First computed	2026-07-04T14:33:05.051425Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

88bbb4ef606a11156b77710b6ab797198e325889a71032850ed6adb8413c972b

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9704080 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9704080v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9704080 · pith_short_12: RC53J33ANIIR · pith_short_16: RC53J33ANIIRK23X · pith_short_8: RC53J33A

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/RC53J33ANIIRK23XOEFWVN4XDG \
  | 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: 88bbb4ef606a11156b77710b6ab797198e325889a71032850ed6adb8413c972b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "46d81ff283925ad4511eda013d8bc4a0f9cd94299e1ff1fee0860f26744201b8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1997-04-10T00:56:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0d76c070e810813970dfa093b879b9587725ab234de4be7387fe9f4af55c57a8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9704080",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}