Pith Number

pith:QS4IWIMC

pith:1996:QS4IWIMCSESUBGSYDRWBJMICAI

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Comparing decay rates for black holes and D-branes

Samir D. Mathur, Sumit R. Das

arxiv:hep-th/9606185 v2 · 1996-06-28 · hep-th

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\pithnumber{QS4IWIMCSESUBGSYDRWBJMICAI}

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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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First computed	2026-07-04T16:02:11.507390Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

84b88b21829125409a581c6c14b102023eab1d90d9b761c5e4b37dcd7944b955

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9606185 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9606185v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9606185 · pith_short_12: QS4IWIMCSESU · pith_short_16: QS4IWIMCSESUBGSY · pith_short_8: QS4IWIMC

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/QS4IWIMCSESUBGSYDRWBJMICAI \
  | 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: 84b88b21829125409a581c6c14b102023eab1d90d9b761c5e4b37dcd7944b955

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "45e22eeab5b9c14bcd7ed14a376e28182b2bdb2293e84314a86c0d772f672758",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1996-06-28T03:32:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3d9bd7d5933a59afa4db356f2b603b6d8f0b4cad4dddf49e59b35a03588182ca"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9606185",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}