Pith Number

pith:VIZZ6EGD

pith:1996:VIZZ6EGDB5XLJEEA3CKI6S4GEG

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

p-Branes, D-Branes and M-Branes

E. Bergshoeff

arxiv:hep-th/9611099 v1 · 1996-11-13 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VIZZ6EGDB5XLJEEA3CKI6S4GEG}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T00:54:21.085296Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

aa339f10c30f6eb49080d8948f4b8621babdf07db07efabf865fbfd0075ecc7c

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9611099 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9611099v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9611099 · pith_short_12: VIZZ6EGDB5XL · pith_short_16: VIZZ6EGDB5XLJEEA · pith_short_8: VIZZ6EGD

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/VIZZ6EGDB5XLJEEA3CKI6S4GEG \
  | 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: aa339f10c30f6eb49080d8948f4b8621babdf07db07efabf865fbfd0075ecc7c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "100acd3dd5612e099bb5c9fc4a438dd9bda17e9907f1a1b3d0ca342aa3a7ce9e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1996-11-13T14:33:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "78d03906ed2dfafb7a0d1177b3e42ef477cd82e0ac9a947f8ac674e09bad1c35"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9611099",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}