Pith Number

pith:5HCN74ED

pith:2012:5HCN74EDK27ASAQFUDE7BUOFE2

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

String Theory Versus Black Hole Complementarity

Amit Giveon, Nissan Itzhaki

arxiv:1208.3930 v1 · 2012-08-20 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5HCN74EDK27ASAQFUDE7BUOFE2}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T01:55:09.307679Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e9c4dff08356be090205a0c9f0d1c526a8c78c46a17d705488186c5cb71e6571

Aliases

arxiv: 1208.3930 · arxiv_version: 1208.3930v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1208.3930 · pith_short_12: 5HCN74EDK27A · pith_short_16: 5HCN74EDK27ASAQF · pith_short_8: 5HCN74ED

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/5HCN74EDK27ASAQFUDE7BUOFE2 \
  | 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: e9c4dff08356be090205a0c9f0d1c526a8c78c46a17d705488186c5cb71e6571

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8a47deb6c17c3cd31415b70a19c1a24c0ec8f0911361ec8e3a910e5c46bac0c8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2012-08-20T07:55:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d515e80de6e0f91caa012734030c855a2c9f314457bbd2802bb995f3ce351759"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1208.3930",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}