Pith Number

pith:XO3ZV5SF

pith:1998:XO3ZV5SFAQ3PPSSAST2FZJQMCL

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Introduction to M Theory and AdS/CFT Duality

John H. Schwarz

arxiv:hep-th/9812037 v2 · 1998-12-04 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XO3ZV5SFAQ3PPSSAST2FZJQMCL}

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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	2026-07-04T16:10:05.735144Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bbb79af6450436f7ca4094f45ca60c12d6e9578bcf759c8723c732a52e09cad0

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9812037 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9812037v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9812037 · pith_short_12: XO3ZV5SFAQ3P · pith_short_16: XO3ZV5SFAQ3PPSSA · pith_short_8: XO3ZV5SF

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/XO3ZV5SFAQ3PPSSAST2FZJQMCL \
  | 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: bbb79af6450436f7ca4094f45ca60c12d6e9578bcf759c8723c732a52e09cad0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fb1f006ce891b104e1f3f76616376804e2e6acbcc155ddf7e78542abec234e0f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1998-12-04T00:37:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "20118220a5f05ce781408677b4974604e884589ab47489fade3a3e28770d56f2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9812037",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}