Pith Number

pith:W6FBUJVI

pith:2004:W6FBUJVI45D5Y6WW5OLEM23EPZ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

D0-branes in Black Hole Attractors

Aaron Simons, Andrew Strominger, Davide Gaiotto, Xi Yin

arxiv:hep-th/0412179 v2 · 2004-12-16 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{W6FBUJVI45D5Y6WW5OLEM23EPZ}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-07-04T16:49:07.866749Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b78a1a26a8e747dc7ad6eb96466b647e7780cccb323c45f12eaea22a68354a9d

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/0412179 · arxiv_version: hep-th/0412179v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0412179 · pith_short_12: W6FBUJVI45D5 · pith_short_16: W6FBUJVI45D5Y6WW · pith_short_8: W6FBUJVI

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/W6FBUJVI45D5Y6WW5OLEM23EPZ \
  | 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: b78a1a26a8e747dc7ad6eb96466b647e7780cccb323c45f12eaea22a68354a9d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2cfe87309593656624278e2d8ba07e42759c3d72052426dc5dea0edcac96469b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2004-12-16T15:59:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e35991010254fe19910a412b500376438cda97aa4d2a25203d1bd5d1ecd8d269"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/0412179",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}