Pith Number

pith:RMKK67TZ

pith:1997:RMKK67TZD4VLLIBOLJP6LJSDOC

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Topological Matrix Model

Mitsuhiro Kato, Shinji Hirano

arxiv:hep-th/9708039 v2 · 1997-08-07 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RMKK67TZD4VLLIBOLJP6LJSDOC}

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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	2026-05-18T02:36:02.224725Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8b14af7e791f2ab5a02e5a5fe5a64370918a52d981e246eacb197a7a9e168c4a

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9708039 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9708039v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9708039 · pith_short_12: RMKK67TZD4VL · pith_short_16: RMKK67TZD4VLLIBO · pith_short_8: RMKK67TZ

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/RMKK67TZD4VLLIBOLJP6LJSDOC \
  | 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: 8b14af7e791f2ab5a02e5a5fe5a64370918a52d981e246eacb197a7a9e168c4a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7dd8e247537951cd48dd44667fcaaea72f88b157cc4a91177ab7f8a5d7ce97dd",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1997-08-07T13:16:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c2496378915db2582a133bb4b4cff5e02aba0103605d1ade0470201a6c2c79c5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9708039",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}