Pith Number

pith:EH4TB5WA

pith:2017:EH4TB5WASHKHKDLWBE47FZNRZT

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Solutions to the Cosmic Initial Entropy Problem without Equilibrium Initial Conditions

and Charles H. Lineweaver, Vihan M. Patel

arxiv:1708.03677 v1 · 2017-08-10 · gr-qc

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Elementary considerations on possible entropy-driven cosmological evolutions

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:33:15.921912Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

21f930f6c091d4750d760939f2e5b1cccf8a0fcf96da659432bbcb774c82d651

Aliases

arxiv: 1708.03677 · arxiv_version: 1708.03677v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.03677 · pith_short_12: EH4TB5WASHKH · pith_short_16: EH4TB5WASHKHKDLW · pith_short_8: EH4TB5WA

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/EH4TB5WASHKHKDLWBE47FZNRZT \
  | 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: 21f930f6c091d4750d760939f2e5b1cccf8a0fcf96da659432bbcb774c82d651

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d40467a18a0ae73450ca929192cc551f56e8d3687d43e1e2a510b45d7bd5c953",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-10T12:51:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e9d950d88674e5ff667e3db21852e53e564a55cf9e4baa33e07562e8e956812e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1708.03677",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}