Pith Number

pith:2VYIZLTZ

pith:1996:2VYIZLTZXNITZCM63MB7HWW6GC

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Statistical Entropy of Near Extremal Five-branes

Juan M. Maldacena (Princeton University)

arxiv:hep-th/9605016 v1 · 1996-05-03 · hep-th

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\pithnumber{2VYIZLTZXNITZCM63MB7HWW6GC}

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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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An extremal black hole with a unique ground state

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First computed	2026-07-04T16:02:08.151073Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d5708cae79bb513c899edb03f3dade30bb4c65660e85ac07f7bda518833980c4

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9605016 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9605016v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9605016 · pith_short_12: 2VYIZLTZXNIT · pith_short_16: 2VYIZLTZXNITZCM6 · pith_short_8: 2VYIZLTZ

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/2VYIZLTZXNITZCM63MB7HWW6GC \
  | 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: d5708cae79bb513c899edb03f3dade30bb4c65660e85ac07f7bda518833980c4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "bc914555261b3e3dde09d340e7e8433d4db2cc8248101156c5d978b8b38315a9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1996-05-03T03:20:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a6c77f1d96e61086eb8b4f36a31e0b3305327c4912b68ac1945f118d00cf32e8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9605016",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}