Pith Number

pith:4XMXFKEB

pith:1999:4XMXFKEBX43MTG2DJIOATHBW2S

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A Covariant Entropy Conjecture

Raphael Bousso (Stanford)

arxiv:hep-th/9905177 v3 · 1999-05-24 · hep-th · astro-ph · gr-qc

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4XMXFKEBX43MTG2DJIOATHBW2S}

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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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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-04T17:21:12.711086Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e5d972a881bf36c99b434a1c099c36d48dc32648859be6921a36365a3b938501

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9905177 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9905177v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9905177 · pith_short_12: 4XMXFKEBX43M · pith_short_16: 4XMXFKEBX43MTG2D · pith_short_8: 4XMXFKEB

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/4XMXFKEBX43MTG2DJIOATHBW2S \
  | 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: e5d972a881bf36c99b434a1c099c36d48dc32648859be6921a36365a3b938501

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cf638216a17606212714db7e8271fc04906ef00cd50bded4b97047e9cab40db8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph",
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1999-05-24T23:54:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1030bb8d31ea7496bd4d5078803960193ec6cd97f632b3c29b1ad632faa550c3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9905177",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}