Pith Number

pith:4FLVRK6O

pith:1994:4FLVRK6O5QAJZS5RM3T7DANGTH

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Massive String States as Extreme Black Holes

J. Rahmfeld, M.J. Duff

arxiv:hep-th/9406105 v2 · 1994-06-15 · hep-th · gr-qc

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4FLVRK6O5QAJZS5RM3T7DANGTH}

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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	2026-07-04T15:57:46.578647Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e15758abceec009ccbb166e7f181a699d434c5acbbe166b5db27896866c0da0f

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9406105 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9406105v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9406105 · pith_short_12: 4FLVRK6O5QAJ · pith_short_16: 4FLVRK6O5QAJZS5R · pith_short_8: 4FLVRK6O

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/4FLVRK6O5QAJZS5RM3T7DANGTH \
  | 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: e15758abceec009ccbb166e7f181a699d434c5acbbe166b5db27896866c0da0f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "bebe903ddfa0ed7f15c7b415086c483583c7d53e5ca408ddc3be29b75cea9213",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1994-06-15T20:26:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "08afc79b1e24ef2b0e48d7c26eced4b3e28a9e436cd23f4e76800f0cb41640e8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9406105",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}