Pith Number

pith:ADKVXVZK

pith:1999:ADKVXVZKZAAVKXEW5PHRKK3PBO

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Causal Entropy Bound

G. Veneziano, R. Brustein

arxiv:hep-th/9912055 v2 · 1999-12-07 · hep-th · gr-qc

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ADKVXVZKZAAVKXEW5PHRKK3PBO}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-07-04T16:15:04.211640Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

00d55bd72ac801555c96ebcf152b6f0b8671e22af55d81c5eff1e35cfacc20c0

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9912055 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9912055v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9912055 · pith_short_12: ADKVXVZKZAAV · pith_short_16: ADKVXVZKZAAVKXEW · pith_short_8: ADKVXVZK

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/ADKVXVZKZAAVKXEW5PHRKK3PBO \
  | 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: 00d55bd72ac801555c96ebcf152b6f0b8671e22af55d81c5eff1e35cfacc20c0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "de691cbe8abbaf26fac5ff133549532ad2a183ef26b5b17d0498b2f19daefc3b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1999-12-07T16:01:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6b63e07febccdfa4f99ca532fe202f01537fb89964ea8e2fa20bf3ce453ccc3f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9912055",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}