Pith Number

pith:ZL22GMO7

pith:1998:ZL22GMO7AVKSQEPRVJ6AR52JOI

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Algebras of Large N Matrix Mechanics

C. Schwartz, M.B. Halpern

arxiv:hep-th/9809197 v2 · 1998-09-28 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZL22GMO7AVKSQEPRVJ6AR52JOI}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T02:35:54.826386Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

caf5a331df05552811f1aa7c08f7497226fbbd33801fd300bd084b9368b5d3de

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9809197 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9809197v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9809197 · pith_short_12: ZL22GMO7AVKS · pith_short_16: ZL22GMO7AVKSQEPR · pith_short_8: ZL22GMO7

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/ZL22GMO7AVKSQEPRVJ6AR52JOI \
  | 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: caf5a331df05552811f1aa7c08f7497226fbbd33801fd300bd084b9368b5d3de

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f80ae2a2ec8603c3cea8c3aeabd3b58bce97bf3f50751692b9ef451b15fd1b9f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1998-09-28T20:51:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "195b18d4f719152605c5c3a368f4837d43a3fd4db8b76507cfca8f2409b320bc"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9809197",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}