Pith Number

pith:F72XNPML

pith:1997:F72XNPMLNFXSL7DMQONQACBPSE

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

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A. Brandhuber, J. Sonnenschein, N. Itzhaki, S. Yankielowicz

arxiv:hep-th/9711010 v2 · 1997-11-03 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{F72XNPMLNFXSL7DMQONQACBPSE}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-07-04T16:05:46.047633Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2ff576bd8b696f25fc6c839b00082f912871ac016c946807eebbe2648a51d91b

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9711010 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9711010v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9711010 · pith_short_12: F72XNPMLNFXS · pith_short_16: F72XNPMLNFXSL7DM · pith_short_8: F72XNPML

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/F72XNPMLNFXSL7DMQONQACBPSE \
  | 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: 2ff576bd8b696f25fc6c839b00082f912871ac016c946807eebbe2648a51d91b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ad8a385b52197b205f63af1bb91c814c4c6cc96f729ffb7a3fe6cf8b48168f56",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1997-11-03T17:19:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "741ff2a278de18ba07ea2c2fa99b53e7d7436b57f4f9e4399a9ffebf29eab3e8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9711010",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}