Pith Number

pith:BDMCWSM6

pith:2000:BDMCWSM6AAOP5YNKAAI7DACIVJ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Black Holes Must Die

Kim Griest, Neal Dalal

arxiv:astro-ph/0008260 v1 · 2000-08-17 · astro-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BDMCWSM6AAOP5YNKAAI7DACIVJ}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T04:17:54.054869Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

08d82b499e001cfee1aa0011f18048aa47fa74ddda897bad88059b69e820fa25

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0008260 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0008260v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0008260 · pith_short_12: BDMCWSM6AAOP · pith_short_16: BDMCWSM6AAOP5YNK · pith_short_8: BDMCWSM6

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/BDMCWSM6AAOP5YNKAAI7DACIVJ \
  | 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: 08d82b499e001cfee1aa0011f18048aa47fa74ddda897bad88059b69e820fa25

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b4e88e94c9639ba9026f5853a0a6a859db95513c7a9ae885f1f87309de4be76d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2000-08-17T01:49:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "62d81a7ac16907d5380e2bad623c9dd44031015d9c4fb81a39cf4c7d4bc7bc18"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0008260",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}