Pith Number

pith:UKBB5HP7

pith:2017:UKBB5HP77QADKKWRIIOTJVOPAG

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Information entropy and thermal entropy: apples and oranges

David K. Ferry, Laszlo B. Kish

arxiv:1706.01459 v2 · 2017-06-05 · physics.gen-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{UKBB5HP77QADKKWRIIOTJVOPAG}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T00:40:03.189473Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a2821e9dfffc00352ad1421d34d5cf01b1fa345ca4dd131c84aeea594dd40dfb

Aliases

arxiv: 1706.01459 · arxiv_version: 1706.01459v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1706.01459 · pith_short_12: UKBB5HP77QAD · pith_short_16: UKBB5HP77QADKKWR · pith_short_8: UKBB5HP7

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/UKBB5HP77QADKKWRIIOTJVOPAG \
  | 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: a2821e9dfffc00352ad1421d34d5cf01b1fa345ca4dd131c84aeea594dd40dfb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3ba63b101fc368ce9a5b1378266426f95b3bacbc394d82247b20905efb39bba2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.gen-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-06-05T19:23:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0d7c1d6747709cb16220549514bf46faae82c8d657ba2e2ed5e0b5f032887699"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1706.01459",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}