Pith Number

pith:7VB4MRSQ

pith:1996:7VB4MRSQYT44MH3KGST5OAB6W4

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On Flux Quantization In M-Theory And The Effective Action

Edward Witten

arxiv:hep-th/9609122 v2 · 1996-09-16 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{7VB4MRSQYT44MH3KGST5OAB6W4}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

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6 papers in Pith

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F-theory flux vacua at large complex structure

Symmetry TFTs from String Theory

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-04T17:25:47.024268Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

fd43c64650c4f9c61f6a34a7d7003eb72ec5e0f7a364c801035a7cf849f8a7f0

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9609122 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9609122v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9609122 · pith_short_12: 7VB4MRSQYT44 · pith_short_16: 7VB4MRSQYT44MH3K · pith_short_8: 7VB4MRSQ

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/7VB4MRSQYT44MH3KGST5OAB6W4 \
  | 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: fd43c64650c4f9c61f6a34a7d7003eb72ec5e0f7a364c801035a7cf849f8a7f0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b246f5de850c39ba67c01a9b00e4a3932ca018e46d15e8616a93b3ce53d67482",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1996-09-16T14:08:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4ed445d1b8fbee3efa20b084f56b1616139fd175d7a29a01a6953156ff73b68c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9609122",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}