Pith Number

pith:VWS6URXC

pith:2026:VWS6URXCI4TH4HJZ2TYA6IC4X7

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Living on the Edge of Effective Field Theory: Near-Extremal Black Holes in Quadratic Gravity

Gary T. Horowitz, Kelvin Ka-Ho Lam, Nicol\'as Yunes

arxiv:2608.05268 v1 · 2026-08-05 · gr-qc · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VWS6URXCI4TH4HJZ2TYA6IC4X7}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-08-07T00:46:38.836226Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ada5ea46e247267e1d39d4f00f205cbfd4f1b695dd364ea60ef2afafe1c825e6

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.05268 · arxiv_version: 2608.05268v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.05268 · pith_short_12: VWS6URXCI4TH · pith_short_16: VWS6URXCI4TH4HJZ · pith_short_8: VWS6URXC

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/VWS6URXCI4TH4HJZ2TYA6IC4X7 \
  | 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: ada5ea46e247267e1d39d4f00f205cbfd4f1b695dd364ea60ef2afafe1c825e6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "56aef255502ef537f113d020542e8592e63511ab212c992f6c0d73da5dd46e5d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-05T18:00:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4bc1c3ab7782a0c39513d401658bec6dc84bf47baa938c23e1f02755093d7751"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.05268",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}