Pith Number

pith:ZEKTO4WO

pith:1996:ZEKTO4WOBEFWQHW5RWPBU6TU4O

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Black Holes in String Theory

Juan M. Maldacena

arxiv:hep-th/9607235 v2 · 1996-07-31 · hep-th · gr-qc

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\pithnumber{ZEKTO4WOBEFWQHW5RWPBU6TU4O}

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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.

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3 papers in Pith

Index saddle for the D1-D5-P black string and its decoupling limit

Lecture notes on strings in AdS$_3$ from the worldsheet and the AdS$_3$/CFT$_2$ duality

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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-04T15:07:53.748761Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c9153772ce090b681edd8d9e1a7a74e396a74a9bea14c42d9106b0ddc39b6907

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9607235 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9607235v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9607235 · pith_short_12: ZEKTO4WOBEFW · pith_short_16: ZEKTO4WOBEFWQHW5 · pith_short_8: ZEKTO4WO

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/ZEKTO4WOBEFWQHW5RWPBU6TU4O \
  | 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: c9153772ce090b681edd8d9e1a7a74e396a74a9bea14c42d9106b0ddc39b6907

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "bd31d81a5066369bba383f620124d67498ae86dc9c7aa990572a592a67a9aa2d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1996-07-31T02:36:30Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f791a33680b5262339e01c2f1ad9e3f1aa832e4583c771cd7cfaf112c4b244dc"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9607235",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}