Pith Number

pith:L7YJDJSB

pith:2018:L7YJDJSBAW5WNKOCOKB4F5XZVQ

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A stringy glimpse into the black hole horizon

Lior Liram, Nissan Itzhaki

arxiv:1801.04939 v2 · 2018-01-15 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{L7YJDJSBAW5WNKOCOKB4F5XZVQ}

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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	2026-05-18T00:18:31.062761Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5ff091a64105bb66a9c27283c2f6f9ac1a8a4d86b65e174d6c946102dbed9e0d

Aliases

arxiv: 1801.04939 · arxiv_version: 1801.04939v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1801.04939 · pith_short_12: L7YJDJSBAW5W · pith_short_16: L7YJDJSBAW5WNKOC · pith_short_8: L7YJDJSB

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/L7YJDJSBAW5WNKOCOKB4F5XZVQ \
  | 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: 5ff091a64105bb66a9c27283c2f6f9ac1a8a4d86b65e174d6c946102dbed9e0d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d24698d84254e7596c66d328b64465dc034bb57190f1d8e6b4483d7a138cbb82",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2018-01-15T19:00:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "32f32a55208780030804f6069b8b2584bd4d32354a87aa808b51f558bd14c9a3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1801.04939",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}