Pith Number

pith:4MFWPSJH

pith:1996:4MFWPSJHIVRRV3MMWFASW2YP6K

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Counting States of Black Strings with Traveling Waves II

Donald Marolf, Gary T. Horowitz

arxiv:hep-th/9606113 v1 · 1996-06-18 · hep-th · gr-qc

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4MFWPSJHIVRRV3MMWFASW2YP6K}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T01:08:02.495057Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e30b67c92745631aed8cb1412b6b0ff2a08e9b98d00ff025d3d50cd4deeecbf2

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9606113 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9606113v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9606113 · pith_short_12: 4MFWPSJHIVRR · pith_short_16: 4MFWPSJHIVRRV3MM · pith_short_8: 4MFWPSJH

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/4MFWPSJHIVRRV3MMWFASW2YP6K \
  | 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: e30b67c92745631aed8cb1412b6b0ff2a08e9b98d00ff025d3d50cd4deeecbf2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "36c1f6f85f54fa04ff78507a2322da91dd0b0076ba3b86d866f876a201abbd8a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1996-06-18T23:34:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a4df39dd5a371778158e622b1ff0d063b33ed477f6fe60015b103af3ee93781a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9606113",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}