Pith Number

pith:FMQXIKZ5

pith:2001:FMQXIKZ5B2XJBXJ5Z2QX4M5EID

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Tachyon Condensation and Black Hole Entropy

Atish Dabholkar

arxiv:hep-th/0111004 v1 · 2001-10-31 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{FMQXIKZ5B2XJBXJ5Z2QX4M5EID}

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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	2026-07-04T16:28:09.258596Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2b21742b3d0eae90dd3dcea17e33a440e6f750b33add638178f211405477ec3b

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/0111004 · arxiv_version: hep-th/0111004v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0111004 · pith_short_12: FMQXIKZ5B2XJ · pith_short_16: FMQXIKZ5B2XJBXJ5 · pith_short_8: FMQXIKZ5

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/FMQXIKZ5B2XJBXJ5Z2QX4M5EID \
  | 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: 2b21742b3d0eae90dd3dcea17e33a440e6f750b33add638178f211405477ec3b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "13b6a7ec55b01c9b4a074e06cfea7e4a37f8c1a213c4117f0854c0289f1ee8ad",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2001-10-31T22:23:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ab602a23a605548ec5b986fac7898095803bad5ce69a01add5251bcefe82e9b2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/0111004",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}