Pith Number

pith:JECJO6D7

pith:2023:JECJO6D7S25VZBUDBDF4SHH4FG

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Black holes were born

Jeroen van Dongen

arxiv:2307.14174 v1 · 2023-07-26 · physics.hist-ph · gr-qc

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JECJO6D7S25VZBUDBDF4SHH4FG}

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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	2026-07-05T06:34:58.675200Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

490497787f96bb5c868308cbc91cfc29bc695519ff1ea10b84ea31da72e22b35

Aliases

arxiv: 2307.14174 · arxiv_version: 2307.14174v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2307.14174 · pith_short_12: JECJO6D7S25V · pith_short_16: JECJO6D7S25VZBUD · pith_short_8: JECJO6D7

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/JECJO6D7S25VZBUDBDF4SHH4FG \
  | 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: 490497787f96bb5c868308cbc91cfc29bc695519ff1ea10b84ea31da72e22b35

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "04f066096c18a7b36cfb63e652cba28e43c110dbeade5cb306eefa2f7aefdbe6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.hist-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2023-07-26T13:02:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1c7f31f9fca4fd59dc61fc413a586244ff22158746e63a5f3ac71b9a48750e80"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2307.14174",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}