Pith Number

pith:MNC2R4Z5

pith:1997:MNC2R4Z5RUGA77HPCWKHHRFHIM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Scattering of Four-Dimensional Black Holes

Jeremy Michelson

arxiv:hep-th/9708091 v2 · 1997-08-17 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MNC2R4Z5RUGA77HPCWKHHRFHIM}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T01:08:02.009916Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6345a8f33d8d0c0ffcef159473c4a74323a28b6bde6c74f94c49744dec1b9d0e

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9708091 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9708091v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9708091 · pith_short_12: MNC2R4Z5RUGA · pith_short_16: MNC2R4Z5RUGA77HP · pith_short_8: MNC2R4Z5

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/MNC2R4Z5RUGA77HPCWKHHRFHIM \
  | 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: 6345a8f33d8d0c0ffcef159473c4a74323a28b6bde6c74f94c49744dec1b9d0e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fd4b6b0c224ab007ff14548885486368b65019288e6f61d695856b98030c1376",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1997-08-17T05:27:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3f7a5486fc3471589f2739607de63724bc53085e21d739cec674df9f5c5a6112"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9708091",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}