Pith Number

pith:TMVYXIYU

pith:1997:TMVYXIYUA2I6MSB32AHJXPXYSY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

M(atrix) Theory : a Pedagogical Introduction

Adel Bilal (ENS Paris)

arxiv:hep-th/9710136 v1 · 1997-10-16 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{TMVYXIYUA2I6MSB32AHJXPXYSY}

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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	2026-05-18T01:38:37.208841Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9b2b8ba3140691e6483bd00e9bbef896350fd01b8ea281f91edf9ac21b07f639

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9710136 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9710136v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9710136 · pith_short_12: TMVYXIYUA2I6 · pith_short_16: TMVYXIYUA2I6MSB3 · pith_short_8: TMVYXIYU

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/TMVYXIYUA2I6MSB32AHJXPXYSY \
  | 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: 9b2b8ba3140691e6483bd00e9bbef896350fd01b8ea281f91edf9ac21b07f639

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f8ea21a3a122d2299c7bbd1e609be0dc05f1f8873d685071e5dc8c2be21fee62",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1997-10-16T20:23:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "844371192d0d0be5c4fbde8eda72ac494ecebc68d1d03c5f9ad43a8641b10d21"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9710136",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}