Pith Number

pith:X4NUKV44

pith:2005:X4NUKV44MY2KDDQV22RAGQADHW

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Describing Curved Spaces by Matrices

Hikaru Kawai, Masanori Hanada, Yusuke Kimura (Kyoto Univ.)

arxiv:hep-th/0508211 v3 · 2005-08-27 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{X4NUKV44MY2KDDQV22RAGQADHW}

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Record completeness

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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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2 papers in Pith

Description of curved spacetimes by finite-size matrices in the type IIB matrix model

Noncommutative Gauge Theories and Gravity

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-04T16:56:18.771650Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bf1b45579c6634a18e15d6a20340033dbf84b66f5bc850920606ab04c9c4ed39

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/0508211 · arxiv_version: hep-th/0508211v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0508211 · pith_short_12: X4NUKV44MY2K · pith_short_16: X4NUKV44MY2KDDQV · pith_short_8: X4NUKV44

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/X4NUKV44MY2KDDQV22RAGQADHW \
  | 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: bf1b45579c6634a18e15d6a20340033dbf84b66f5bc850920606ab04c9c4ed39

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "64626bb0b92151ba391703de01cb4d235f3d6777d4900a026613e3fcc53395e3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2005-08-27T17:27:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "54041c5cc51d62c72edc00ef0c757f7832bf6b443ed714aad18a51d7d3587c2a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/0508211",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}