Pith Number

pith:HRWNJ5TF

pith:1999:HRWNJ5TF57QUUP4R4T6KKFRFJZ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Comments on Black Holes in String Theory

Gary T. Horowitz

arxiv:hep-th/9910082 v1 · 1999-10-08 · hep-th · gr-qc

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HRWNJ5TF57QUUP4R4T6KKFRFJZ}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T04:24:15.340920Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3c6cd4f665efe14a3f91e4fca516254e4564ee55240f6caa8ffe4854dabebf1d

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9910082 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9910082v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9910082 · pith_short_12: HRWNJ5TF57QU · pith_short_16: HRWNJ5TF57QUUP4R · pith_short_8: HRWNJ5TF

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/HRWNJ5TF57QUUP4R4T6KKFRFJZ \
  | 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: 3c6cd4f665efe14a3f91e4fca516254e4564ee55240f6caa8ffe4854dabebf1d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "493da355f98e4287db928c2b3855f58997d611f1fc817a783b35b13577440be0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1999-10-08T22:10:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a78128a6bec0ebcdf5eb5a4b587feefb9e04214bf8fe4e51e249dda71e432969"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9910082",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}