Pith Number

pith:YRKPAUUC

pith:1996:YRKPAUUCDNVXULETQJTZW6VTMM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Virtual D-Branes

David Berenstein, Moshe Rozali, Richard Corrado, Sonia Paban, Willy Fischler

arxiv:hep-th/9605168 v1 · 1996-05-22 · hep-th

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YRKPAUUCDNVXULETQJTZW6VTMM}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-07-04T16:02:09.414826Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c454f052821b6b7a2c9382679b7ab36330ba8eba03e48b4787fe808a632903c3

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9605168 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9605168v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9605168 · pith_short_12: YRKPAUUCDNVX · pith_short_16: YRKPAUUCDNVXULET · pith_short_8: YRKPAUUC

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/YRKPAUUCDNVXULETQJTZW6VTMM \
  | 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: c454f052821b6b7a2c9382679b7ab36330ba8eba03e48b4787fe808a632903c3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d678472172176b0556dfedca1a330e3920d32c6d170007ec78c677f62a88b183",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1996-05-22T21:26:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7f95ee189fbfdae6d750552a21886c3a2a766f33cd2dae2e90a6b5184b716880"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9605168",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}