Pith Number

pith:CKYHAD3U

pith:2005:CKYHAD3UJK4QFNMQO7C4EIXD5Y

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On the fate of black string instabilities: An Observation

Donald Marolf

arxiv:hep-th/0504045 v2 · 2005-04-05 · hep-th · gr-qc

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{CKYHAD3UJK4QFNMQO7C4EIXD5Y}

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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	2026-07-04T16:56:08.398301Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

12b0700f744ab902b59077c5c222e3ee2237af78527890068854c605987d000d

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/0504045 · arxiv_version: hep-th/0504045v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0504045 · pith_short_12: CKYHAD3UJK4Q · pith_short_16: CKYHAD3UJK4QFNMQ · pith_short_8: CKYHAD3U

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/CKYHAD3UJK4QFNMQO7C4EIXD5Y \
  | 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: 12b0700f744ab902b59077c5c222e3ee2237af78527890068854c605987d000d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "af3aae56f3bf4f1c2c5edf6ccd09280362ada5b98486672853f66d9c419cdf1c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2005-04-05T22:34:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9b8168c405699b2c60eaebdd876827d828de67af5b26ddbedeb4c1398c3117a5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/0504045",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}