Pith Number

pith:VQENIFJA

pith:2017:VQENIFJAKDANNZJMRTCKZWFHK4

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Branches of the Black Hole Wave Function Need Not Contain Firewalls

Aidan Chatwin-Davies, Grant N. Remmen, Jason Pollack, Ning Bao, Sean M. Carroll

arxiv:1712.04955 v5 · 2017-12-13 · hep-th · gr-qc · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VQENIFJAKDANNZJMRTCKZWFHK4}

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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	2026-05-18T00:08:36.181105Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ac08d4152050c0d6e52c8cc4acd8a757212ac5ed7baa736d4e1f264b33a82c9a

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.04955 · arxiv_version: 1712.04955v5 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.04955 · pith_short_12: VQENIFJAKDAN · pith_short_16: VQENIFJAKDANNZJM · pith_short_8: VQENIFJA

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/VQENIFJAKDANNZJMRTCKZWFHK4 \
  | 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: ac08d4152050c0d6e52c8cc4acd8a757212ac5ed7baa736d4e1f264b33a82c9a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "51c9a64c5fb50fa2f3fb449ce812e9ffa0583102c459951ce35d617589058777",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc",
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-13T19:00:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c0ef31ff4fa148e972a0db835c20aa380f6d0227d28aa52c4e396058593f1eeb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.04955",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 5
  }
}