Pith Number

pith:ICZ3H5SA

pith:1999:ICZ3H5SAP4MKJQ76QWBI4PEW6N

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Infinitely Coloured Black Holes

Elizabeth Winstanley, Nick E. Mavromatos

arxiv:hep-th/9909018 v1 · 1999-09-03 · hep-th · gr-qc

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ICZ3H5SAP4MKJQ76QWBI4PEW6N}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T04:35:15.446468Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

40b3b3f6407f18a4c3fe85828e3c96f35475b64741fc8c00892e5d6814302b49

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9909018 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9909018v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9909018 · pith_short_12: ICZ3H5SAP4MK · pith_short_16: ICZ3H5SAP4MKJQ76 · pith_short_8: ICZ3H5SA

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/ICZ3H5SAP4MKJQ76QWBI4PEW6N \
  | 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: 40b3b3f6407f18a4c3fe85828e3c96f35475b64741fc8c00892e5d6814302b49

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6e03a039c553ce6f8500de049319d3c1da810170609ce59fe24056bfb007aeb1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1999-09-03T16:48:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "58d28bce067d4fb110defb3cb6983a455297bf842e96469ff25392d618e1c2c6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9909018",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}