Pith Number

pith:Y4XCGTDT

pith:1993:Y4XCGTDTSGAITPJQNB6WKEJPVM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

On Pair Creation of Extremal Black Holes and Kaluza-Klein Monopoles

Fay Dowker, Gary T. Horowitz, Jerome P. Gauntlett, Steven B. Giddings

arxiv:hep-th/9312172 v2 · 1993-12-21 · hep-th · gr-qc

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Y4XCGTDTSGAITPJQNB6WKEJPVM}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T03:07:21.287097Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c72e234c73918089bd30687d65112fab0813ab62acdf908c72a5e79ba83de0c5

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9312172 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9312172v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9312172 · pith_short_12: Y4XCGTDTSGAI · pith_short_16: Y4XCGTDTSGAITPJQ · pith_short_8: Y4XCGTDT

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/Y4XCGTDTSGAITPJQNB6WKEJPVM \
  | 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: c72e234c73918089bd30687d65112fab0813ab62acdf908c72a5e79ba83de0c5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "323a55f3b0291218f1c40be5208c9320dc14259166573beec36e3a98521ac11f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1993-12-21T22:34:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "aaeaac9c3cd6211585bd03d04c628a2c171456cc7ced6e0e75806472530c02c3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9312172",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}