Pith Number

pith:ZHXASYRQ

pith:2018:ZHXASYRQ3CWCSSAYAGIQZUPWP7

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

(Information) Paradox Regained? A Brief Comment on Maudlin on Black Hole Information Loss

James Owen Weatherall, JB Manchak

arxiv:1801.05923 v2 · 2018-01-18 · physics.hist-ph · gr-qc

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZHXASYRQ3CWCSSAYAGIQZUPWP7}

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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	2026-05-18T00:15:16.777534Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c9ee096230d8ac29481801910cd1f67ff51c08770b043175f3363a584f3249f0

Aliases

arxiv: 1801.05923 · arxiv_version: 1801.05923v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1801.05923 · pith_short_12: ZHXASYRQ3CWC · pith_short_16: ZHXASYRQ3CWCSSAY · pith_short_8: ZHXASYRQ

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/ZHXASYRQ3CWCSSAYAGIQZUPWP7 \
  | 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: c9ee096230d8ac29481801910cd1f67ff51c08770b043175f3363a584f3249f0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8cd058e7153764ff547d935751e7badfa099e0eeafd827a4b5b86b21c7846fff",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.hist-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2018-01-18T03:33:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "94a0228cc66256723e50187b12cd1ea0848874e029a7143195cecdc71a5898b9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1801.05923",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}