Pith Number

pith:PALPGHEC

pith:2012:PALPGHECRY4DEZAGWBMQATXW77

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Complementarity Is Not Enough

Raphael Bousso

arxiv:1207.5192 v2 · 2012-07-22 · hep-th · gr-qc

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PALPGHECRY4DEZAGWBMQATXW77}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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.

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1 paper in Pith

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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T03:19:57.706526Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7816f31c828e38326406b059004ef6ffe3a6909181dcae3d00c6117385e42141

Aliases

arxiv: 1207.5192 · arxiv_version: 1207.5192v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1207.5192 · pith_short_12: PALPGHECRY4D · pith_short_16: PALPGHECRY4DEZAG · pith_short_8: PALPGHEC

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/PALPGHECRY4DEZAGWBMQATXW77 \
  | 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: 7816f31c828e38326406b059004ef6ffe3a6909181dcae3d00c6117385e42141

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "14dcbd9287533cd274ba86aefe70f86f5f647de05ffcd5b933922c61b57dd574",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2012-07-22T02:00:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a9a7753486def07ee501e578164811a9a44e9c3f8bcabe4daee64369bb14b977"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1207.5192",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}