Pith Number

pith:NT6XL2IZ

pith:1997:NT6XL2IZUXFXRP6D5PUD73TID5

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Probing Five-Dimensional Black Holes with D-Branes

Andrew Strominger, Joseph Polchinski, Michael Douglas

arxiv:hep-th/9703031 v1 · 1997-03-04 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NT6XL2IZUXFXRP6D5PUD73TID5}

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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	2026-07-04T16:05:24.928829Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6cfd75e919a5cb78bfc3ebe83fee681f6e984d7a9e44a8c5a7d6fa27cec3475a

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9703031 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9703031v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9703031 · pith_short_12: NT6XL2IZUXFX · pith_short_16: NT6XL2IZUXFXRP6D · pith_short_8: NT6XL2IZ

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/NT6XL2IZUXFXRP6D5PUD73TID5 \
  | 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: 6cfd75e919a5cb78bfc3ebe83fee681f6e984d7a9e44a8c5a7d6fa27cec3475a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "08e382c22644cd347214cb407ece49d541e486109ea6c22cc10ee24f4d262077",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1997-03-04T22:24:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6599ee4c85efa28485d75a9fa55238dcaef0a94caef3e9d0fdedb87191fdd2d9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9703031",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}