Pith Number

pith:EFUW2JBW

pith:1996:EFUW2JBW5UYFPNQEYD7VAFOLC3

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Multi-Instanton Calculus in $N=2$ Supersymmetric Gauge Theory

M.P. Mattis (Los Alamos), N. Dorey (Swansea), V.V. Khoze (Durham)

arxiv:hep-th/9603136 v2 · 1996-03-20 · hep-th · hep-ph

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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T01:08:03.782921Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

21696d2436ed3057b604c0ff5015cb16c0e46d20db3684ba0facce4143ccb83d

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9603136 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9603136v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9603136 · pith_short_12: EFUW2JBW5UYF · pith_short_16: EFUW2JBW5UYFPNQE · pith_short_8: EFUW2JBW

Agent API

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/EFUW2JBW5UYFPNQEYD7VAFOLC3 \
  | 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: 21696d2436ed3057b604c0ff5015cb16c0e46d20db3684ba0facce4143ccb83d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1a1c31d7a608d42d19fdd8fc3984300adb69eddf1cdff39b2c6cf9dc9f850a21",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-ph"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1996-03-20T10:53:52Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2c3b9a6e145e500a68c0e7441f770a9587593162192956bf9f5a537055691849"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9603136",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}