Pith Number

pith:BJ3TNHOR

pith:2002:BJ3TNHOR63ZLB3QHZRU64NEMCH

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

From Black Strings to Black Holes

T. Wiseman

arxiv:hep-th/0211028 v1 · 2002-11-05 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BJ3TNHOR63ZLB3QHZRU64NEMCH}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T00:36:53.699960Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0a77369dd1f6f2b0ee07cc69ee348c11f71ffb27213e055fef99f201d19a952f

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/0211028 · arxiv_version: hep-th/0211028v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0211028 · pith_short_12: BJ3TNHOR63ZL · pith_short_16: BJ3TNHOR63ZLB3QH · pith_short_8: BJ3TNHOR

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/BJ3TNHOR63ZLB3QHZRU64NEMCH \
  | 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: 0a77369dd1f6f2b0ee07cc69ee348c11f71ffb27213e055fef99f201d19a952f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "719a24c687ebea6148edb4bebba00364e699bafc1329d8d31bc05964fa8eb13e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2002-11-05T12:26:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c2705f6369e267f3edcda064092f7399badddddf68cc3b424f7f49c9d87c14ca"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/0211028",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}