Pith Number

pith:MF6KRQDQ

pith:2014:MF6KRQDQWWWQNJNDV4TS5NIHMT

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Rotating black holes can have short bristles

Shahar Hod

arxiv:1411.2609 v1 · 2014-11-10 · gr-qc · astro-ph.HE · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MF6KRQDQWWWQNJNDV4TS5NIHMT}

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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	2026-05-18T01:41:33.427491Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

617ca8c070b5ad06a5a3af272eb50764cde66eb04cf3a83549af7bd0025ceb91

Aliases

arxiv: 1411.2609 · arxiv_version: 1411.2609v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1411.2609 · pith_short_12: MF6KRQDQWWWQ · pith_short_16: MF6KRQDQWWWQNJND · pith_short_8: MF6KRQDQ

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/MF6KRQDQWWWQNJNDV4TS5NIHMT \
  | 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: 617ca8c070b5ad06a5a3af272eb50764cde66eb04cf3a83549af7bd0025ceb91

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7f3cb525e5f37c1d02e193d54b5fbae6874d9f57d2ff835afd7c41975ef4ac10",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.HE",
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "2014-11-10T21:02:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9ada1d7ba687169d85c04b6119c80bc32d7976f1bdf346c922dfdc719184355b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1411.2609",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}