Pith Number

pith:YNMMTSWO

pith:1997:YNMMTSWOM37Z7GRFP7HM3O3F43

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Gauge Theory, Geometry and the Large N Limit

F. Larsen, R. Gopakumar, V. Balasubramanian

arxiv:hep-th/9712077 v3 · 1997-12-07 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YNMMTSWOM37Z7GRFP7HM3O3F43}

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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	2026-07-04T16:05:48.101155Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c358c9cace66ff9f9a257fcecdbb65e6ce2fb18d1949c552ca64c6efd6960d47

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9712077 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9712077v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9712077 · pith_short_12: YNMMTSWOM37Z · pith_short_16: YNMMTSWOM37Z7GRF · pith_short_8: YNMMTSWO

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/YNMMTSWOM37Z7GRFP7HM3O3F43 \
  | 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: c358c9cace66ff9f9a257fcecdbb65e6ce2fb18d1949c552ca64c6efd6960d47

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "64e0aeda87144ced74f844344d8189dae67b58af5f3ce190cdf23499c5450b7b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1997-12-07T23:16:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1cd4c991238a1df20cc58a7949e5ce77c33069713635db673d1a20f87d37d72e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9712077",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}