Pith Number

pith:G5PQY3CV

pith:1997:G5PQY3CV6F3YWIWBVC34U2PDIR

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Comments on Black Holes in Matrix Theory

Emil J. Martinec, Gary T. Horowitz

arxiv:hep-th/9710217 v2 · 1997-10-29 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{G5PQY3CV6F3YWIWBVC34U2PDIR}

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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	2026-05-18T01:08:01.950590Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

375f0c6c55f1778b22c1a8b7ca69e3444dce6c0a645a5ea6238b4d89f836d260

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9710217 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9710217v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9710217 · pith_short_12: G5PQY3CV6F3Y · pith_short_16: G5PQY3CV6F3YWIWB · pith_short_8: G5PQY3CV

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/G5PQY3CV6F3YWIWBVC34U2PDIR \
  | 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: 375f0c6c55f1778b22c1a8b7ca69e3444dce6c0a645a5ea6238b4d89f836d260

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "85cecc93a38bbe7d7f94c6127bce1960602dcd668249131af0d5bb001da26092",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1997-10-29T00:09:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2dfca6794e45162d52b062d2f97e7a5c7196e14f56bd8b5c6733e39f452ccb12"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9710217",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}