Pith Number

pith:5JZGG7QA

pith:1997:5JZGG7QAJJ2HUWM5TFNCFFPZ7S

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Remarks on the M5-Brane

John H. Schwarz

arxiv:hep-th/9707119 v1 · 1997-07-11 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5JZGG7QAJJ2HUWM5TFNCFFPZ7S}

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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	2026-07-04T16:05:39.305106Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ea72637e004a747a599d995a2295f9fcbd636e96b4eeff2940bd88006cd96a02

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9707119 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9707119v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9707119 · pith_short_12: 5JZGG7QAJJ2H · pith_short_16: 5JZGG7QAJJ2HUWM5 · pith_short_8: 5JZGG7QA

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/5JZGG7QAJJ2HUWM5TFNCFFPZ7S \
  | 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: ea72637e004a747a599d995a2295f9fcbd636e96b4eeff2940bd88006cd96a02

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "bc2e09bd283131367768ca700702c98eac06d3a0cf8d0ce27af6e1c65fe0b482",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1997-07-11T18:11:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d3f1d1731f4d0cecafc78777aeb7646b433fea61d8af638d1f434849340c4495"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9707119",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}