Pith Number

pith:X2FM626H

pith:1998:X2FM626HODRPA5SHDFYJJZ6QXE

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Topological Symmetry, Background Independence, and Matrix Models

Ichiro Oda

arxiv:hep-th/9806096 v1 · 1998-06-12 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{X2FM626HODRPA5SHDFYJJZ6QXE}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:38:36.867990Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

be8acf6bc770e2f07647197094e7d0b91656cea3065d1f83efc0e3067ea9d59a

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9806096 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9806096v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9806096 · pith_short_12: X2FM626HODRP · pith_short_16: X2FM626HODRPA5SH · pith_short_8: X2FM626H

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/X2FM626HODRPA5SHDFYJJZ6QXE \
  | 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: be8acf6bc770e2f07647197094e7d0b91656cea3065d1f83efc0e3067ea9d59a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "86fad8918d7d1448ed541aa7cc60efa258a1cf738af0dc3a8b77fc6e098cb7b7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1998-06-12T08:34:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "82a3c3b4b60ad8520338555303a37d2755072b7401cc07a5f4855d05c81a04f4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9806096",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}