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pith:4H2GW5AS

pith:1993:4H2GW5ASKF2NDXGXAXUFPOWA7W
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Black Strings and p-Branes are Unstable

R.Gregory, R.Laflamme

arxiv:hep-th/9301052 v2 · 1993-01-13 · hep-th · gr-qc

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First computed 2026-07-04T15:36:41.028782Z
Builder pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature Pith Ed25519 (pith-v1-2026-05) · public key
Schema pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e1f46b74125174d1dcd705e857bac0fd832670c381c2ccd6a9e9a6bb7c9d5e67

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9301052 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9301052v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9301052 · pith_short_12: 4H2GW5ASKF2N · pith_short_16: 4H2GW5ASKF2NDXGX · pith_short_8: 4H2GW5AS
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Verify this Pith Number yourself
curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/4H2GW5ASKF2NDXGXAXUFPOWA7W \
  | 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: e1f46b74125174d1dcd705e857bac0fd832670c381c2ccd6a9e9a6bb7c9d5e67
Canonical record JSON
{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "58121cfebda3ee18432e79156c36a4b227d61ddbe98e176c110f22742691658f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1993-01-13T20:31:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d899bd2d7ccc425c322a4be60c473962e0fce6ce7e907557a5121f3e338e5e88"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9301052",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}