Pith Number

pith:ZDBVMZUP

pith:1996:ZDBVMZUPZDDLUNKBD2INRRHAO2

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Comparing D-branes to Black-branes

Gilad Lifschytz (Brandeis University)

arxiv:hep-th/9604156 v3 · 1996-04-24 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZDBVMZUPZDDLUNKBD2INRRHAO2}

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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.

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1 paper in Pith

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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T01:06:00.827591Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c8c356668fc8c6ba35411e90d8c4e07698d0996bb3c329ccfb1fd35d48bca710

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9604156 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9604156v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9604156 · pith_short_12: ZDBVMZUPZDDL · pith_short_16: ZDBVMZUPZDDLUNKB · pith_short_8: ZDBVMZUP

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/ZDBVMZUPZDDLUNKBD2INRRHAO2 \
  | 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: c8c356668fc8c6ba35411e90d8c4e07698d0996bb3c329ccfb1fd35d48bca710

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4c0aa2c5bf4b83c56ef73567b47f63c0d9a9876e4131ffe27b14caac9a7dad3b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1996-04-24T17:15:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2ec01bb93215687505891c29e97a9c0e24a79803844637646bba9a97ea9acb3d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9604156",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}