Pith Number

pith:RDM5XXP4

pith:2005:RDM5XXP4MWQLGAZUDKTEAO7BUJ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Ten Theses on Black Hole Entropy

Rafael D. Sorkin (Perimeter Institute, Syracuse University)

arxiv:hep-th/0504037 v2 · 2005-04-05 · hep-th · gr-qc

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RDM5XXP4MWQLGAZUDKTEAO7BUJ}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T04:10:37.484792Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

88d9dbddfc65a0b303341aa6403be1a26ec633fce754e630053bdacec12c923e

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/0504037 · arxiv_version: hep-th/0504037v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0504037 · pith_short_12: RDM5XXP4MWQL · pith_short_16: RDM5XXP4MWQLGAZU · pith_short_8: RDM5XXP4

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/RDM5XXP4MWQLGAZUDKTEAO7BUJ \
  | 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: 88d9dbddfc65a0b303341aa6403be1a26ec633fce754e630053bdacec12c923e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5aee312a70836f8b944159ca8c5303675b6ff0999b7f6cee92090a475d95a8e3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2005-04-05T07:21:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "864ce7b88a20db10f7604a30abd4d864e44db01715ea3edfda6d5adef87b4908"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/0504037",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}