Pith Number

pith:W2NVDPLH

pith:2011:W2NVDPLH5WJ5ECHW2EWTFGH7IJ

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The black hole information paradox and relative locality

Lee Smolin

arxiv:1108.0910 v1 · 2011-08-03 · gr-qc · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{W2NVDPLH5WJ5ECHW2EWTFGH7IJ}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T02:45:49.881530Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b69b51bd67ed93d208f6d12d3298ff426b3346947c0537f281a686743f7743c9

Aliases

arxiv: 1108.0910 · arxiv_version: 1108.0910v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1108.0910 · pith_short_12: W2NVDPLH5WJ5 · pith_short_16: W2NVDPLH5WJ5ECHW · pith_short_8: W2NVDPLH

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/W2NVDPLH5WJ5ECHW2EWTFGH7IJ \
  | 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: b69b51bd67ed93d208f6d12d3298ff426b3346947c0537f281a686743f7743c9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "010355fe8fb49d0ff3caf16f5c98d1d4f3b76da2e30735981783b062d883b8ac",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "2011-08-03T18:41:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "26880635959a5d06c843e2f7c313440f08ec544968d23c58d3a450b5b25b94be"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1108.0910",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}