Pith Number

pith:IXXSZRGO

pith:1997:IXXSZRGOIT4Y6MJFWKSBHFF45I

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Probing Near Extremal Black Holes with D-branes

Juan M. Maldacena

arxiv:hep-th/9705053 v3 · 1997-05-08 · hep-th

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An extremal black hole with a unique ground state

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First computed	2026-07-04T16:05:34.926927Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

45ef2cc4ce44f98f3125b2a41394bcea282556fdc8ee6521efd6844f7e270741

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9705053 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9705053v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9705053 · pith_short_12: IXXSZRGOIT4Y · pith_short_16: IXXSZRGOIT4Y6MJF · pith_short_8: IXXSZRGO

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/IXXSZRGOIT4Y6MJFWKSBHFF45I \
  | 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: 45ef2cc4ce44f98f3125b2a41394bcea282556fdc8ee6521efd6844f7e270741

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2a095a72e71d5624f00a2a4e1e9d466153b898f27c67b547d710d34789f23288",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1997-05-08T18:20:30Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0af40c322012c1e1e4a5e42fd2ff4f45d781157b33d36f4f3d0270e122141c91"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9705053",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}