Pith Number

pith:VBTGA4FT

pith:2005:VBTGA4FTI3PWANM4JWO466U6NB

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

D-brane dynamics near compactified NS5-branes

John Ward, Steven Thomas

arxiv:hep-th/0501192 v2 · 2005-01-24 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VBTGA4FTI3PWANM4JWO466U6NB}

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4 Citations 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	2026-07-04T16:55:58.290674Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a8666070b346df60359c4d9dcf7a9e6867dbb66bee5b19ef3638a6691e96b27d

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/0501192 · arxiv_version: hep-th/0501192v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0501192 · pith_short_12: VBTGA4FTI3PW · pith_short_16: VBTGA4FTI3PWANM4 · pith_short_8: VBTGA4FT

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/VBTGA4FTI3PWANM4JWO466U6NB \
  | 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: a8666070b346df60359c4d9dcf7a9e6867dbb66bee5b19ef3638a6691e96b27d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "61f0552c6b8704b899e54097e5e42a05077baaf604eff3946dcf1ad08b6c1c10",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2005-01-24T19:16:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6b8376c9fc6d5e058dc1549f7a7e53aaeb147d47aac4c6d5ed4ef81238f2ea6b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/0501192",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}