Pith Number

pith:FHS7YAC3

pith:1999:FHS7YAC3CE7YHQOCMHTLM4ILWP

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Holographic Principle for General Backgrounds

Raphael Bousso

arxiv:hep-th/9911002 v1 · 1999-11-02 · hep-th · gr-qc

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{FHS7YAC3CE7YHQOCMHTLM4ILWP}

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Record completeness

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T04:24:15.288504Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

29e5fc005b113f83c1c261e6b6710bb3e04422cb36f51fc146686728ff99f75f

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9911002 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9911002v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9911002 · pith_short_12: FHS7YAC3CE7Y · pith_short_16: FHS7YAC3CE7YHQOC · pith_short_8: FHS7YAC3

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/FHS7YAC3CE7YHQOCMHTLM4ILWP \
  | 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: 29e5fc005b113f83c1c261e6b6710bb3e04422cb36f51fc146686728ff99f75f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e70bb6ae327ac64ecfe6d2bc2abe82867f23dc1108c80b7e80aecdde83d71fdc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1999-11-02T03:59:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e8827f0c0ca9962adfcc2f1aea792da57b1267923ee6cd84c244b01015c11771"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9911002",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}