Pith Number

pith:GGLHCWRD

pith:2005:GGLHCWRDMYO37TVWFLFNFE34RQ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A black hole instability in five dimensions?

Amitabh Virmani, Donald Marolf

arxiv:hep-th/0505044 v2 · 2005-05-04 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{GGLHCWRDMYO37TVWFLFNFE34RQ}

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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	2026-07-04T16:56:10.514064Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3196715a23661dbfceb62acad2937c8c26afe1c98e84d86303a1a3f84ac979d4

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/0505044 · arxiv_version: hep-th/0505044v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0505044 · pith_short_12: GGLHCWRDMYO3 · pith_short_16: GGLHCWRDMYO37TVW · pith_short_8: GGLHCWRD

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/GGLHCWRDMYO37TVWFLFNFE34RQ \
  | 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: 3196715a23661dbfceb62acad2937c8c26afe1c98e84d86303a1a3f84ac979d4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "dc432c367dc2e3cee00cff6894236c5e3d06cd7f0146937ba1a01022a35e6e0f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2005-05-04T22:38:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0b3d433d545be6816c00f73f23bb60b006471fdce68a8defba7da0ffdc628f5b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/0505044",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}