Pith Number

pith:OYVRW4SP

pith:2002:OYVRW4SPYWXFT4FHI2QUHDK7Y6

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Light-sheets and Bekenstein's bound

Raphael Bousso

arxiv:hep-th/0210295 v2 · 2002-10-31 · hep-th · gr-qc · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{OYVRW4SPYWXFT4FHI2QUHDK7Y6}

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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	2026-07-04T16:34:57.033146Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

762b1b724fc5ae59f0a746a1438d5fc797ce17667cc9b8e3b6bc9ea03e0a4d8d

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/0210295 · arxiv_version: hep-th/0210295v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0210295 · pith_short_12: OYVRW4SPYWXF · pith_short_16: OYVRW4SPYWXFT4FH · pith_short_8: OYVRW4SP

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/OYVRW4SPYWXFT4FHI2QUHDK7Y6 \
  | 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: 762b1b724fc5ae59f0a746a1438d5fc797ce17667cc9b8e3b6bc9ea03e0a4d8d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d176dae222bdd800220eedffea3f415bb1733bcc7bc86029f0e3fa5bc677d208",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc",
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2002-10-31T17:00:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cea40a2e943299cea294fca05c2425c01939cef49e430afa43006f46e02e6345"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/0210295",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}