Pith Number

pith:L6BK7N6Y

pith:2002:L6BK7N6Y67R7JVRRDHUNCC4OCH

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Stringy negative-tension branes and the second law of thermodynamics

Donald Marolf, Simon F. Ross

arxiv:hep-th/0202091 v1 · 2002-02-14 · hep-th · gr-qc

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{L6BK7N6Y67R7JVRRDHUNCC4OCH}

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Record completeness

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-04T16:34:33.688950Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5f82afb7d8f7e3f4d63119e8d10b8e11f0fb7d3a730d7cef281d6ffaddc016cf

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/0202091 · arxiv_version: hep-th/0202091v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0202091 · pith_short_12: L6BK7N6Y67R7 · pith_short_16: L6BK7N6Y67R7JVRR · pith_short_8: L6BK7N6Y

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/L6BK7N6Y67R7JVRRDHUNCC4OCH \
  | 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: 5f82afb7d8f7e3f4d63119e8d10b8e11f0fb7d3a730d7cef281d6ffaddc016cf

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7a6864f73dc5625668cd52211e10067aed24954bd25352b493e8a8de14a8175f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2002-02-14T23:45:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b46d02f4cf6f81ec9703c016e3cbc51b68a8bf4a03027924b24e8f14feb7e7b7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/0202091",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}