Pith Number

pith:TXHVA5H2

pith:1996:TXHVA5H2L2LP6CYMEX2RFLQVGZ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Probing F-theory With Multiple Branes

David A. Lowe, John H. Schwarz, Michael R. Douglas

arxiv:hep-th/9612062 v1 · 1996-12-05 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{TXHVA5H2L2LP6CYMEX2RFLQVGZ}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-07-04T16:02:26.844888Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9dcf5074fa5e96ff0b0c25f512ae15365dccd6349c875f5d418b6dfdc21b6f04

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9612062 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9612062v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9612062 · pith_short_12: TXHVA5H2L2LP · pith_short_16: TXHVA5H2L2LP6CYM · pith_short_8: TXHVA5H2

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/TXHVA5H2L2LP6CYMEX2RFLQVGZ \
  | 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: 9dcf5074fa5e96ff0b0c25f512ae15365dccd6349c875f5d418b6dfdc21b6f04

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "16fee0aa9a1c0f267a7b71b764198b205400e0507f016c6c6fa02c1640d1fe6b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1996-12-05T23:53:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "431666d9887d3609accb6cec68225e197792b7fb7836ef559ba833ba92567431"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9612062",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}