Pith Number

pith:YZEF4ZZT

pith:2026:YZEF4ZZTGTF62AMA4BYCS3XQFS

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Why There is No Memory Burden in Holographic Space-time Models of Black Hole Formation and Evaporation

T. Banks

arxiv:2608.12139 v1 · 2026-08-12 · hep-th · gr-qc · hep-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YZEF4ZZTGTF62AMA4BYCS3XQFS}

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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	2026-08-13T01:30:12.349924Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c6485e673334cbed0180e070296ef02caf6d378e66a6d484fe9452d49ee03847

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.12139 · arxiv_version: 2608.12139v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.12139 · pith_short_12: YZEF4ZZTGTF6 · pith_short_16: YZEF4ZZTGTF62AMA · pith_short_8: YZEF4ZZT

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/YZEF4ZZTGTF62AMA4BYCS3XQFS \
  | 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: c6485e673334cbed0180e070296ef02caf6d378e66a6d484fe9452d49ee03847

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e87f245e99482aa4ed940b9ba30b81cb357c63d7f8da9b951231218c7d16e4f5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc",
      "hep-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-12T14:56:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a1179501843357cc58ad87994b7d3a04e6cc37611cae719a7705b38335f8f85b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.12139",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}