Pith Number

pith:KZTQE4W4

pith:2018:KZTQE4W4C3OWPWVC25KIV4FOJA

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Stringy instability inside the black hole

Nissan Itzhaki

arxiv:1808.02259 v1 · 2018-08-07 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KZTQE4W4C3OWPWVC25KIV4FOJA}

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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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1 paper in Pith

Black Hole Entropy from String Entanglement

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:00:51.264051Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

56670272dc16dd67daa2d7548af0ae48283738413d25f98f3b81e1fae792f953

Aliases

arxiv: 1808.02259 · arxiv_version: 1808.02259v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1808.02259 · pith_short_12: KZTQE4W4C3OW · pith_short_16: KZTQE4W4C3OWPWVC · pith_short_8: KZTQE4W4

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/KZTQE4W4C3OWPWVC25KIV4FOJA \
  | 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: 56670272dc16dd67daa2d7548af0ae48283738413d25f98f3b81e1fae792f953

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3eb06c7e7e4cc03f9d821b8125a7cb88c838c06d245823f6a4abeaae1bd21438",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2018-08-07T08:47:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "990477e64b11a40f4dc27a320699112f0145d9d0748d2330ee15fce0495654e2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1808.02259",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}