Pith Number

pith:QQSCLOBJ

pith:1999:QQSCLOBJDMPV5KE6QZ7ZDPVISR

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

AdS/CFT and the Information Paradox

D.A. Lowe, L. Thorlacius

arxiv:hep-th/9903237 v2 · 1999-03-26 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QQSCLOBJDMPV5KE6QZ7ZDPVISR}

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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	2026-05-18T01:08:00.162062Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

842425b8291b1f5ea89e867f91bea89450dce07825b8e63d00bdd8766eccfb25

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9903237 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9903237v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9903237 · pith_short_12: QQSCLOBJDMPV · pith_short_16: QQSCLOBJDMPV5KE6 · pith_short_8: QQSCLOBJ

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/QQSCLOBJDMPV5KE6QZ7ZDPVISR \
  | 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: 842425b8291b1f5ea89e867f91bea89450dce07825b8e63d00bdd8766eccfb25

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3a2a87d269f958d4a238b579c221b16499d4612840e6b8cd65068e9db9f90d8e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1999-03-26T18:33:25Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "52fda6595318699ea4228b915b65d0f05889473d44388d83a747ae4663b966f2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9903237",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}