Pith Number

pith:2UQXMDJG

pith:1994:2UQXMDJGD7OISADFGTD2JPRUDI

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Possible Resolution of the Black Hole Information Puzzle

Andrew Strominger, Joseph Polchinski

arxiv:hep-th/9407008 v2 · 1994-07-02 · hep-th · gr-qc

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2UQXMDJGD7OISADFGTD2JPRUDI}

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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.

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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-04T15:50:08.679248Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d521760d261fdc89006534c7a4be341a3646a0f4a8cd881f36335f62f6e90eb9

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9407008 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9407008v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9407008 · pith_short_12: 2UQXMDJGD7OI · pith_short_16: 2UQXMDJGD7OISADF · pith_short_8: 2UQXMDJG

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/2UQXMDJGD7OISADFGTD2JPRUDI \
  | 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: d521760d261fdc89006534c7a4be341a3646a0f4a8cd881f36335f62f6e90eb9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0d2807d8b4d73c06c6ea48eb1ddd58dc82c1a63e8c45c64edd700eda68850f81",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1994-07-02T00:05:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1912b7d695d158ae30ada42c442cfe1b45db64edf9be0d60795f6486c496b377"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9407008",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}