Pith Number

pith:YKZEZXMY

pith:1997:YKZEZXMY7HEC5O2UT3L23NMWY4

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Schwarzschild Black Holes from Matrix Theory

I.R.Klebanov, L.Susskind, T.Banks, W.Fischler

arxiv:hep-th/9709091 v2 · 1997-09-12 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YKZEZXMY7HEC5O2UT3L23NMWY4}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-07-04T15:20:58.757121Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c2b24cdd98f9c82ebb549ed7adb596c72b434274a3d4139431891e2c1ae7b178

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9709091 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9709091v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9709091 · pith_short_12: YKZEZXMY7HEC · pith_short_16: YKZEZXMY7HEC5O2U · pith_short_8: YKZEZXMY

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/YKZEZXMY7HEC5O2UT3L23NMWY4 \
  | 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: c2b24cdd98f9c82ebb549ed7adb596c72b434274a3d4139431891e2c1ae7b178

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d7ae177151d15de051bae351ea1e44c81d75d39d685dd9baab696d96708cc167",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1997-09-12T21:46:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2bf884370df175ce4d08f82ee26b8c6e28e3cbd407747a814c84371c12a12459"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9709091",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}