Pith Number

pith:HVBCB5RY

pith:1997:HVBCB5RY4DIHQNFS7TEDEF5Y4B

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Black Hole Entropy in M-Theory

Andrew Strominger, Edward Witten, Juan Maldacena

arxiv:hep-th/9711053 v1 · 1997-11-07 · hep-th

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\pithnumber{HVBCB5RY4DIHQNFS7TEDEF5Y4B}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

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7 papers in Pith

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Index saddle for the D1-D5-P black string and its decoupling limit

An extremal black hole with a unique ground state

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-04T17:25:47.201253Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3d4220f638e0d07834b2fcc83217b8e05b786a5d3a433a9ed4977fd12ff4562e

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9711053 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9711053v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9711053 · pith_short_12: HVBCB5RY4DIH · pith_short_16: HVBCB5RY4DIHQNFS · pith_short_8: HVBCB5RY

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/HVBCB5RY4DIHQNFS7TEDEF5Y4B \
  | 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: 3d4220f638e0d07834b2fcc83217b8e05b786a5d3a433a9ed4977fd12ff4562e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e6db3cc070caeaace89a2c4dd29cf866156edfe1c99d2bef87b8c0370e38d792",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1997-11-07T19:49:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ab201698806868e9adfbeea1f8fb1c5c594dd26a77627447501fb084f874091f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9711053",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}