Pith Number

pith:IHPZLCNR

pith:2019:IHPZLCNRWYQBBBODEQKUFC5HQZ

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Black Hole Time Scales: Thermalization, Infall and Complexity

T. Banks

arxiv:1904.02591 v1 · 2019-04-04 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IHPZLCNRWYQBBBODEQKUFC5HQZ}

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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	2026-05-17T23:49:23.238408Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

41df9589b1b6201085c32415428ba786715ed70051d8ff42356130d2556cdfc6

Aliases

arxiv: 1904.02591 · arxiv_version: 1904.02591v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1904.02591 · pith_short_12: IHPZLCNRWYQB · pith_short_16: IHPZLCNRWYQBBBOD · pith_short_8: IHPZLCNR

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/IHPZLCNRWYQBBBODEQKUFC5HQZ \
  | 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: 41df9589b1b6201085c32415428ba786715ed70051d8ff42356130d2556cdfc6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b8473accce3e80310259e152640b03152074079debbb77dc6f36e9512292188c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2019-04-04T14:58:30Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bfb048732015f2b598919570212dc5db8e51fd07c21191102889082c80be844c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1904.02591",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}