Pith Number

pith:YLNNYIJN

pith:1998:YLNNYIJNNQM7DTSOMFUDODMNXT

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Multi-Instantons and Maldacena's Conjecture

M.P.Mattis, N. Dorey, S. Vandoren, T.J. Hollowood, V.V. Khoze

arxiv:hep-th/9810243 v3 · 1998-10-30 · hep-th · hep-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YLNNYIJNNQM7DTSOMFUDODMNXT}

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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	2026-07-04T16:10:03.150235Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c2dadc212d6c19f1ce4e6168370d8dbcca77bb30cd4ac206439050e9937f813b

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9810243 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9810243v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9810243 · pith_short_12: YLNNYIJNNQM7 · pith_short_16: YLNNYIJNNQM7DTSO · pith_short_8: YLNNYIJN

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/YLNNYIJNNQM7DTSOMFUDODMNXT \
  | 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: c2dadc212d6c19f1ce4e6168370d8dbcca77bb30cd4ac206439050e9937f813b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ef64bb123a451e33f1f7c9909f4ab0b3364c5e3638b94a1724084a4fcbf8a941",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-ph"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1998-10-30T00:46:50Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2fddd1a8743d5f8c8494d0204ecf2853c60d5ec7f92ca42e275088433eecf944"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9810243",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}