Pith Number

pith:RGWAV3IW

pith:2012:RGWAV3IWKHXYKUSQIUGETJCYQR

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Empty Black Holes, Firewalls, and the Origin of Bekenstein-Hawking Entropy

Mehdi Saravani, Niayesh Afshordi, Robert B. Mann

arxiv:1212.4176 v2 · 2012-12-17 · hep-th · astro-ph.HE · gr-qc

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\pithnumber{RGWAV3IWKHXYKUSQIUGETJCYQR}

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First computed	2026-05-18T03:05:54.848106Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

89ac0aed1651ef855250450c49a458845335e3854da42fa83c77528a3e416e83

Aliases

arxiv: 1212.4176 · arxiv_version: 1212.4176v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1212.4176 · pith_short_12: RGWAV3IWKHXY · pith_short_16: RGWAV3IWKHXYKUSQ · pith_short_8: RGWAV3IW

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/RGWAV3IWKHXYKUSQIUGETJCYQR \
  | 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: 89ac0aed1651ef855250450c49a458845335e3854da42fa83c77528a3e416e83

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7d6179aefd9431db5c91b52a7c389696c4a784aed6016a3334378291d0de4719",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.HE",
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2012-12-17T21:56:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "394255bc6d58596039e91c08cdc3a90178bdb637b6e912f2e1ec5bd54b7c9b88"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1212.4176",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}