Pith Number

pith:JAWDDBGZ

pith:2014:JAWDDBGZIBB3VE4FMMALMG5KU7

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

First Law of Black Hole Mechanics as a Condition for Stationarity

Stephen McCormick

arxiv:1406.7480 v1 · 2014-06-29 · gr-qc

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JAWDDBGZIBB3VE4FMMALMG5KU7}

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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	2026-05-18T02:32:53.773553Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

482c3184d94043ba93856300b61baaa7e30f00399f6f28186049803f78e123e4

Aliases

arxiv: 1406.7480 · arxiv_version: 1406.7480v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1406.7480 · pith_short_12: JAWDDBGZIBB3 · pith_short_16: JAWDDBGZIBB3VE4F · pith_short_8: JAWDDBGZ

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/JAWDDBGZIBB3VE4FMMALMG5KU7 \
  | 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: 482c3184d94043ba93856300b61baaa7e30f00399f6f28186049803f78e123e4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4cb2e5fef6dbfe85f20d2f4383b8514f4bef6015913b8103a7ae9caec037f011",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "2014-06-29T09:46:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bcf1abe77d1f01bf224b6445ab7ede4d1cdf7f2f4d1953ee307ca54174fe41b0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1406.7480",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}