Pith Number

pith:WZVDSIUL

pith:1996:WZVDSIULWGRD2X6IBQXLAJLM7P

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

D-branes and Fat Black Holes

Juan M. Maldacena, Leonard Susskind

arxiv:hep-th/9604042 v1 · 1996-04-08 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WZVDSIULWGRD2X6IBQXLAJLM7P}

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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.

Cited by

2 papers in Pith

The Resolved Elliptic Genus and the D1-D5 CFT

The Large N Limit of Superconformal Field Theories and Supergravity

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-04T15:53:52.657869Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b66a39228bb1a23d5fc80c2eb0256cfbc5b4795bcf48d920fa5555d6caa9c6a5

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9604042 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9604042v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9604042 · pith_short_12: WZVDSIULWGRD · pith_short_16: WZVDSIULWGRD2X6I · pith_short_8: WZVDSIUL

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/WZVDSIULWGRD2X6IBQXLAJLM7P \
  | 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: b66a39228bb1a23d5fc80c2eb0256cfbc5b4795bcf48d920fa5555d6caa9c6a5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e55e2a93ffb89ee15eae80a46e7314a1888de6811dd136feeca61e39867e8fe8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1996-04-08T23:40:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5a100271f182c8755ffce12fde6f97f85a8f814aaab7aac2c174a9cafcd68015"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9604042",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}