Pith Number

pith:WZEE4G2L

pith:2007:WZEE4G2LUMGCCD2EVX2UJOVPUQ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Black holes, information, and locality

Steven B. Giddings

arxiv:0705.2197 v2 · 2007-05-15 · hep-th · gr-qc

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WZEE4G2LUMGCCD2EVX2UJOVPUQ}

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Record completeness

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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.

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1 paper in Pith

Quantum circuit simulation of black hole evaporation and Maxwell demon interpretation

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-04T15:24:13.283477Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b6484e1b4ba30c210f44adf544baafa4003fa47d1c7a06b541905b814a967907

Aliases

arxiv: 0705.2197 · arxiv_version: 0705.2197v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0705.2197 · pith_short_12: WZEE4G2LUMGC · pith_short_16: WZEE4G2LUMGCCD2E · pith_short_8: WZEE4G2L

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/WZEE4G2LUMGCCD2EVX2UJOVPUQ \
  | 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: b6484e1b4ba30c210f44adf544baafa4003fa47d1c7a06b541905b814a967907

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "03d1d6c1471df5374bcdb17aca4d958f24ff1842ac9c81e7196718d6201adb24",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2007-05-15T19:18:44Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b19c574d83caa88feecebf13af5b6e7e2df325ab37b395e7f6e653c765aaf531"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0705.2197",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}