Pith Number

pith:WWARLYGD

pith:1992:WWARLYGD23EYG42TP43K5USWMN

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The N=2(4) string is self-dual N=4 Yang-Mills

W. Siegel

arxiv:hep-th/9205075 v2 · 1992-05-20 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WWARLYGD23EYG42TP43K5USWMN}

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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	2026-05-18T01:38:44.794778Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b58115e0c3d6c98373537f36aed2566364d4c00a1a7ca8aa04954170e53e8285

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9205075 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9205075v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9205075 · pith_short_12: WWARLYGD23EY · pith_short_16: WWARLYGD23EYG42T · pith_short_8: WWARLYGD

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/WWARLYGD23EYG42TP43K5USWMN \
  | 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: b58115e0c3d6c98373537f36aed2566364d4c00a1a7ca8aa04954170e53e8285

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "44e7509212f434e84e72a265d29b1dd612fd7b3c6d7fd3db73b8413c1b114465",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1992-05-20T16:52:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0f2dc377380e5f89ae5a34d651fe1cbacb47fbd7320d92712dddbb3aa72fce88"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9205075",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}