Pith Number

pith:236V5FXA

pith:1996:236V5FXAARTSHWCMMPC2UNL63Z

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Black Holes and U-Duality

Christopher M. Hull, Mirjam Cvetic

arxiv:hep-th/9606193 v3 · 1996-06-28 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{236V5FXAARTSHWCMMPC2UNL63Z}

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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	2026-07-04T15:50:10.090027Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d6fd5e96e0046723d84c63c5aa357ede6e599713a096932c425945b26c17a0bf

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9606193 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9606193v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9606193 · pith_short_12: 236V5FXAARTS · pith_short_16: 236V5FXAARTSHWCM · pith_short_8: 236V5FXA

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/236V5FXAARTSHWCMMPC2UNL63Z \
  | 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: d6fd5e96e0046723d84c63c5aa357ede6e599713a096932c425945b26c17a0bf

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e7f0df45af54f9cb8f1782603a6eb6de4e6f9af416f1b27e0866dcdffc7c032e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1996-06-28T18:15:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0979423f2e9aae4b2af9170e30fd2807edd4bf7782a305ef32884789983c44e9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9606193",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}