Pith Number

pith:D46QIWWJ

pith:1998:D46QIWWJ2CVSK7I7DGPHRFSBGH

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Localized Branes and Black Holes

Donald Marolf, Sumati Surya

arxiv:hep-th/9805121 v3 · 1998-05-19 · hep-th · gr-qc

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{D46QIWWJ2CVSK7I7DGPHRFSBGH}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:08:01.650841Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1f3d045ac9d0ab257d1f199e78964131cd43e5fa26edfbc6adbc0b18bc08979a

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9805121 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9805121v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9805121 · pith_short_12: D46QIWWJ2CVS · pith_short_16: D46QIWWJ2CVSK7I7 · pith_short_8: D46QIWWJ

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/D46QIWWJ2CVSK7I7DGPHRFSBGH \
  | 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: 1f3d045ac9d0ab257d1f199e78964131cd43e5fa26edfbc6adbc0b18bc08979a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d6bfb42679104ccab9fade8d6aa03038a4d0dc89afbdbdc4b95a79362b922635",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1998-05-19T16:26:52Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "15c9fdd334de04da1ca7b4ab9dc8edd4bd7f956469a3077b686974a171799013"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9805121",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}