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pith:TVZ2ZBKO

pith:2021:TVZ2ZBKO5EKQWVSN3WTMALAJSN
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On the black hole/string transition

Edward Witten, Juan Maldacena, Yiming Chen

arxiv:2109.08563 v3 · 2021-09-17 · hep-th

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7 papers in Pith

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On Cosmological Singularities in String Theory
Superball of Strings
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First computed 2026-07-05T03:41:40.728890Z
Builder pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature Pith Ed25519 (pith-v1-2026-05) · public key
Schema pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9d73ac854ee9150b564ddda6c02c099353013367687b633ea0874c942ceba307

Aliases

arxiv: 2109.08563 · arxiv_version: 2109.08563v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2109.08563 · pith_short_12: TVZ2ZBKO5EKQ · pith_short_16: TVZ2ZBKO5EKQWVSN · pith_short_8: TVZ2ZBKO
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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/TVZ2ZBKO5EKQWVSN3WTMALAJSN \
  | 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: 9d73ac854ee9150b564ddda6c02c099353013367687b633ea0874c942ceba307
Canonical record JSON 
{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ea2cd37f12403d76f12a40a0efb128323053c3c7143aabe1ee1904c3b29cb84b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2021-09-17T14:10:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "426af3922e68203ac906cf16530cb7e365e45814bb8e5fe6c97e333c6baed2c5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2109.08563",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}