Pith Number

pith:WH5OWJEW

pith:1995:WH5OWJEWX3EKZO3RUAW65RQV3U

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The black hole information paradox

Steven B. Giddings

arxiv:hep-th/9508151 v1 · 1995-08-28 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WH5OWJEWX3EKZO3RUAW65RQV3U}

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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.

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1 paper in Pith

Black hole chemistry: thermodynamics with Lambda

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-04T14:32:48.234427Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b1faeb2496bec8acbb71a02deec615dd0d148ea1460ecd039865efa021293b4d

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9508151 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9508151v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9508151 · pith_short_12: WH5OWJEWX3EK · pith_short_16: WH5OWJEWX3EKZO3R · pith_short_8: WH5OWJEW

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/WH5OWJEWX3EKZO3RUAW65RQV3U \
  | 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: b1faeb2496bec8acbb71a02deec615dd0d148ea1460ecd039865efa021293b4d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "638589a6e579ce43e3d1de120ae2a82d47db4a57dc8a98385861e028d9bf2e77",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1995-08-28T18:50:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "51eb2240b211ea87e8ea22b51e36cc5114ea2cc3e97865ede32f6585587bb241"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9508151",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}