Pith Number

pith:VVE5GYFQ

pith:1997:VVE5GYFQJNT2OSNVSL2CRYSQHX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

U-Duality Symmetries from the Membrane Worldvolume

Andre Lukas, Burt A. Ovrut

arxiv:hep-th/9704178 v1 · 1997-04-24 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VVE5GYFQJNT2OSNVSL2CRYSQHX}

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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	2026-05-18T04:35:16.257000Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ad49d360b04b67a749b592f428e2503dec030199973317f88c5d4750d177f8ea

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9704178 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9704178v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9704178 · pith_short_12: VVE5GYFQJNT2 · pith_short_16: VVE5GYFQJNT2OSNV · pith_short_8: VVE5GYFQ

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/VVE5GYFQJNT2OSNVSL2CRYSQHX \
  | 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: ad49d360b04b67a749b592f428e2503dec030199973317f88c5d4750d177f8ea

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2d5cbef34ffc66b097ea7d66b596b8e2477606a897b856dd169afce8b2d58270",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1997-04-24T23:32:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a71c9290fc33f3670f1bc57bf0966238954935868958e9a23747aac62f63276a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9704178",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}