Pith Number

pith:QQ26W6QB

pith:1992:QQ26W6QBEKSV5H5ZO3HBZ5L2RW

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Do Black Holes Form?

Louis Witten, Richard Gass

arxiv:hep-th/9212034 v2 · 1992-12-04 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QQ26W6QBEKSV5H5ZO3HBZ5L2RW}

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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	2026-05-18T01:06:05.081996Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8435eb7a0122a55e9fb976ce1cf57a8dbc19653a946a9d084ba698a905048b3a

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9212034 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9212034v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9212034 · pith_short_12: QQ26W6QBEKSV · pith_short_16: QQ26W6QBEKSV5H5Z · pith_short_8: QQ26W6QB

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/QQ26W6QBEKSV5H5ZO3HBZ5L2RW \
  | 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: 8435eb7a0122a55e9fb976ce1cf57a8dbc19653a946a9d084ba698a905048b3a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0eac89ab66fa94c4daf734231f5d4b4edb0da96f3707126aec453b3654075f07",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1992-12-04T21:07:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e36316a754351bee820e6d27bf59c04908a69c169f94ebf407a9e51355ef8698"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9212034",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}