Pith Number

pith:CDFWA327

pith:1997:CDFWA327V2PDV7FD7R37EKZDP4

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

5D Black Holes and Matrix Strings

E. Verlinde, H. Verlinde, R. Dijkgraaf

arxiv:hep-th/9704018 v2 · 1997-04-02 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{CDFWA327V2PDV7FD7R37EKZDP4}

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Record completeness

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T01:05:56.051108Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

10cb606f5fae9e3afca3fc77f22b237f314f67e9517899d2507c6796700b0a23

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9704018 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9704018v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9704018 · pith_short_12: CDFWA327V2PD · pith_short_16: CDFWA327V2PDV7FD · pith_short_8: CDFWA327

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/CDFWA327V2PDV7FD7R37EKZDP4 \
  | 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: 10cb606f5fae9e3afca3fc77f22b237f314f67e9517899d2507c6796700b0a23

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "365588d10d158d60f728ca79992bfb4fa672599b1124156bd8b273753edc377d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1997-04-02T16:49:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7c0a6753df5c92131f1efe59056f82efbf2f1265ab023ed0099ed15be33bb0a9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9704018",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}