Pith Number

pith:B2VF4WC2

pith:1996:B2VF4WC2QSKCOSHXFJYAE77KFY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Nonextremal Black Hole Microstates and U-duality

Andrew Strominger, Gary Horowitz, Juan Maldacena

arxiv:hep-th/9603109 v1 · 1996-03-16 · hep-th · gr-qc

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\pithnumber{B2VF4WC2QSKCOSHXFJYAE77KFY}

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An extremal black hole with a unique ground state

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First computed	2026-07-04T15:50:09.876092Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0eaa5e585a84942748f72a70027fea2e385ffe8b15ee4cfd078c309404fcb5aa

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9603109 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9603109v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9603109 · pith_short_12: B2VF4WC2QSKC · pith_short_16: B2VF4WC2QSKCOSHX · pith_short_8: B2VF4WC2

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/B2VF4WC2QSKCOSHXFJYAE77KFY \
  | 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: 0eaa5e585a84942748f72a70027fea2e385ffe8b15ee4cfd078c309404fcb5aa

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "125b02a0981ed61b3c8cb4ed1a03fe1234f75330f6df14c6c96c658c4bc801f8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1996-03-16T01:07:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2512b2553bcba41c3572a06cf7cb50daedf6924b3df55cf002aeba2e13c08074"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9603109",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}