Pith Number

pith:PK67SBAV

pith:2007:PK67SBAVI3PBQMN37G6J5ZSHQT

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Black Hole Deconstruction

Andrew Strominger, Davide Gaiotto, Dieter Van den Bleeken, Frederik Denef, Xi Yin

arxiv:hep-th/0703252 v1 · 2007-03-28 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PK67SBAVI3PBQMN37G6J5ZSHQT}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T01:38:45.249933Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7abdf9041546de1831bbf9bc9ee64784d5b31c34f83a5deede5eb7ad2621c8cd

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/0703252 · arxiv_version: hep-th/0703252v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0703252 · pith_short_12: PK67SBAVI3PB · pith_short_16: PK67SBAVI3PBQMN3 · pith_short_8: PK67SBAV

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/PK67SBAVI3PBQMN37G6J5ZSHQT \
  | 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: 7abdf9041546de1831bbf9bc9ee64784d5b31c34f83a5deede5eb7ad2621c8cd

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0178b71347f42a4a445fd92a6ca35ea4eec536fb27564386fa4beb022abc45fb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2007-03-28T17:45:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "efa536a03c996febc52d4d14a2beca54ea41d35026c7ba8a883b8de2e2172164"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/0703252",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}