Pith Number

pith:UWVJO4M3

pith:2000:UWVJO4M37Q64CAGGX7V73YT34B

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Marginal Stability and the Metamorphosis of BPS States

Adam Ritz, Arkady Vainshtein, Mikhail Shifman, Mikhail Voloshin

arxiv:hep-th/0006028 v3 · 2000-06-04 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{UWVJO4M37Q64CAGGX7V73YT34B}

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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	2026-05-18T04:18:13.995810Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a5aa97719bfc3dc100c6bfebfde27be0771a31ac9b2c79e2205218f0eda6a3a7

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/0006028 · arxiv_version: hep-th/0006028v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0006028 · pith_short_12: UWVJO4M37Q64 · pith_short_16: UWVJO4M37Q64CAGG · pith_short_8: UWVJO4M3

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/UWVJO4M37Q64CAGGX7V73YT34B \
  | 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: a5aa97719bfc3dc100c6bfebfde27be0771a31ac9b2c79e2205218f0eda6a3a7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c4d1985efb3a2e81a2f766ab42069f3596bd9a9238e79ba4bb11f69c86ad330b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2000-06-04T16:32:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "14ccb1fef48e7d26f82b1d65a43cee90ab57803cfa0cdb26b0fd57c77fd3634b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/0006028",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}