Pith Number

pith:SNK3M6GB

pith:1997:SNK3M6GBAIJT3RDPSAZSW4GWYD

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

BPS states in Matrix Strings

Rajesh Gopakumar (Princeton University)

arxiv:hep-th/9704030 v1 · 1997-04-04 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SNK3M6GBAIJT3RDPSAZSW4GWYD}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-07-04T16:05:26.983552Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9355b678c102133dc46f90332b70d6c0fc139724eb0e398514ae55bcffdd865c

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9704030 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9704030v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9704030 · pith_short_12: SNK3M6GBAIJT · pith_short_16: SNK3M6GBAIJT3RDP · pith_short_8: SNK3M6GB

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/SNK3M6GBAIJT3RDPSAZSW4GWYD \
  | 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: 9355b678c102133dc46f90332b70d6c0fc139724eb0e398514ae55bcffdd865c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d6bbaffa04b54c45351316e93da865f78238d8863ded5b8eb8c5442668530105",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1997-04-04T00:21:10Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4ea40d7c8d1d56fc276df890d9f75ea1e72a016b8f2976a96f2547e51156805d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9704030",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}