Pith Number

pith:RM4HAAJQ

pith:2004:RM4HAAJQGV3QEWODO7YCMS4KUQ

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Portrait of the String as a Random Walk

Juan L. Manes

arxiv:hep-th/0412104 v3 · 2004-12-10 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RM4HAAJQGV3QEWODO7YCMS4KUQ}

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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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Scalar Hair at the String-Black-Hole Correspondence

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First computed	2026-07-04T16:49:07.343489Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8b3870013035770259c377f0264b8aa4038dc084c0dbda22e150ab4d62799116

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/0412104 · arxiv_version: hep-th/0412104v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0412104 · pith_short_12: RM4HAAJQGV3Q · pith_short_16: RM4HAAJQGV3QEWOD · pith_short_8: RM4HAAJQ

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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/RM4HAAJQGV3QEWODO7YCMS4KUQ \
  | 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: 8b3870013035770259c377f0264b8aa4038dc084c0dbda22e150ab4d62799116

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "132b6502ce06217647e1d62938d6654baa0ec0883838e8055a1e6c23e25f10fb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2004-12-10T11:35:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8ea8e455645d1bd79099969c8ac4f040a515de65ac9bd354f1db1f4640a7328a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/0412104",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}