Pith Number

pith:ZX6IA7CH

pith:1993:ZX6IA7CHNTS7CRFBYHANCFKOAY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Strings, Black Holes and Lorentz Contraction

Leonard Susskind

arxiv:hep-th/9308139 v1 · 1993-08-27 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZX6IA7CHNTS7CRFBYHANCFKOAY}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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.

Cited by

2 papers in Pith

Strings near BTZ black holes: A Carrollian Chronicle

Toward a worldsheet theory of entanglement entropy

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-04T15:53:51.705905Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cdfc807c476ce5f144a1c1c0d1154e062238a2cdcd30156caa52863aaebc77fd

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9308139 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9308139v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9308139 · pith_short_12: ZX6IA7CHNTS7 · pith_short_16: ZX6IA7CHNTS7CRFB · pith_short_8: ZX6IA7CH

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/ZX6IA7CHNTS7CRFBYHANCFKOAY \
  | 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: cdfc807c476ce5f144a1c1c0d1154e062238a2cdcd30156caa52863aaebc77fd

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5503b6225d89bccc69d2799d7527e76471b3c5c7629b4c2f119dd70f7d748dbe",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1993-08-27T16:05:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7cdf37dfa489dd184608c7e944c99a806d5d46ecb0fe451b3a7d6b5fb2336b22"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9308139",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}