Pith Number

pith:LHQ7KGK7

pith:1997:LHQ7KGK7ENA4LHNUWIYRTZWGQU

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The Statistical Mechanics of Black Hole Thermodynamics

Rafael D. Sorkin (ICN-UNAM, Syracuse University)

arxiv:gr-qc/9705006 v2 · 1997-05-05 · gr-qc · hep-th

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\pithnumber{LHQ7KGK7ENA4LHNUWIYRTZWGQU}

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Information-Theoretic Black Hole Entropy I: Beyond the Area Law

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-04T15:07:45.327302Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

59e1f5195f2341c59db4b23119e6c6851e6db4aa9071656a3a3627c36dcfa08d

Aliases

arxiv: gr-qc/9705006 · arxiv_version: gr-qc/9705006v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.gr-qc/9705006 · pith_short_12: LHQ7KGK7ENA4 · pith_short_16: LHQ7KGK7ENA4LHNU · pith_short_8: LHQ7KGK7

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/LHQ7KGK7ENA4LHNUWIYRTZWGQU \
  | 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: 59e1f5195f2341c59db4b23119e6c6851e6db4aa9071656a3a3627c36dcfa08d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e3314aaa3b2a84ac84c63715f7b0b16342a206454d3a55bcabd1426e23b25684",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "1997-05-05T15:08:17Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1d7e3106bf816172147eb99f896224983e5e2b6f724cdaa04707f9b4e2a45474"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "gr-qc/9705006",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}