Pith Number

pith:G4EUUDW2

pith:1997:G4EUUDW2C3JMM4FKSXM7S25GJG

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Self Gravitating Fundamental Strings

Gary T. Horowitz, Joseph Polchinski

arxiv:hep-th/9707170 v1 · 1997-07-18 · hep-th

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7 papers in Pith

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Non-linear evolution of five-dimensional black strings in effective field theory

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From Horowitz -- Polchinski to Thirring and Back

Precision asymptotics of string amplitudes

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-04T15:54:12.522202Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

37094a0eda16d2c670aa95d9f96ba6498aa1e30407b5364cf98dab521ba12481

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9707170 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9707170v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9707170 · pith_short_12: G4EUUDW2C3JM · pith_short_16: G4EUUDW2C3JMM4FK · pith_short_8: G4EUUDW2

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/G4EUUDW2C3JMM4FKSXM7S25GJG \
  | 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: 37094a0eda16d2c670aa95d9f96ba6498aa1e30407b5364cf98dab521ba12481

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a9e287c46107d0c6570372d3459209adb871cc0728dde4da457b3b8460bcb38a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1997-07-18T23:10:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "874cef1462618821a72dc8366e8f0809413ba4ab77a94176e2b4dddfc08e3d39"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9707170",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}