Pith Number

pith:VGCGAAPU

pith:1995:VGCGAAPU3O3TIKT63EIVBU4VPI

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Super Yang-Mills Theory as a Random Matrix Model

W. Siegel

arxiv:hep-th/9502163 v1 · 1995-02-28 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VGCGAAPU3O3TIKT63EIVBU4VPI}

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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	2026-05-18T03:12:20.477371Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a9846001f4dbb7342a7ed91150d3957a14eb554b9fbeab96280297a147d7b603

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9502163 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9502163v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9502163 · pith_short_12: VGCGAAPU3O3T · pith_short_16: VGCGAAPU3O3TIKT6 · pith_short_8: VGCGAAPU

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/VGCGAAPU3O3TIKT63EIVBU4VPI \
  | 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: a9846001f4dbb7342a7ed91150d3957a14eb554b9fbeab96280297a147d7b603

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3d03165015ed21916cfa0a527d2d4177448e7a437b9fa9ec9538d4ec58bf982d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1995-02-28T18:48:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9ae4d207fb756625b0f124fc7c9c05683190e6a99689ac0d25c71c5fbd1d62de"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9502163",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}