Pith Number

pith:2BBPHXYO

pith:1992:2BBPHXYOPYF3IWUTPLXSS5XUCB

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Black Hole Remnants and the Information Puzzle

A. Strominger, M. O'Loughlin, T. Banks

arxiv:hep-th/9211030 v2 · 1992-11-05 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2BBPHXYOPYF3IWUTPLXSS5XUCB}

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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	2026-07-04T15:50:07.644996Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d042f3df0e7e0bb45a937aef2976f41074bb271d0016ab0d3e4f55532887d12d

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9211030 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9211030v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9211030 · pith_short_12: 2BBPHXYOPYF3 · pith_short_16: 2BBPHXYOPYF3IWUT · pith_short_8: 2BBPHXYO

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/2BBPHXYOPYF3IWUTPLXSS5XUCB \
  | 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: d042f3df0e7e0bb45a937aef2976f41074bb271d0016ab0d3e4f55532887d12d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "bb5242a06e21915ec19ae7c82c8dbee8459fcb416d3d27cd39c569b9ac1c396f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1992-11-05T23:21:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f0bed1038f4bf147efe6f2380dc9e21e144acb3eaf9b9ce283b76228d8ea4183"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9211030",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}