Pith Number

pith:WWMOCRIY

pith:1996:WWMOCRIYFSJ7OPKY7BUNAUBKDH

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Statistical Mechanics of Multiply Wound D-Branes

Gavin Polhemus

arxiv:hep-th/9612130 v3 · 1996-12-11 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WWMOCRIYFSJ7OPKY7BUNAUBKDH}

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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	2026-05-18T01:08:02.369561Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b598e145182c93f73d58f868d0502a19cbf1d30ab01f48b34b011e9662707b7d

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9612130 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9612130v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9612130 · pith_short_12: WWMOCRIYFSJ7 · pith_short_16: WWMOCRIYFSJ7OPKY · pith_short_8: WWMOCRIY

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/WWMOCRIYFSJ7OPKY7BUNAUBKDH \
  | 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: b598e145182c93f73d58f868d0502a19cbf1d30ab01f48b34b011e9662707b7d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "85055c243a31d4a91bd5b419adc5fdbc94cd8e3f0bc4596a7b7205b2180708d9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1996-12-11T23:56:17Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7232c38a7ae5ec53aeafaa2bebe9da10f1dca456e38026bb2e2056a860b1bf06"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9612130",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}