Pith Number

pith:VBOKIBSQ

pith:2017:VBOKIBSQFAOS4YI2MTMTKROH45

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The case for black hole thermodynamics, Part II: statistical mechanics

David Wallace

arxiv:1710.02725 v2 · 2017-10-07 · gr-qc · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VBOKIBSQFAOS4YI2MTMTKROH45}

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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	2026-05-18T00:13:10.904616Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a85ca40650281d2e611a64d93545c7e74ece4f3518942f46b84e6e06d876774f

Aliases

arxiv: 1710.02725 · arxiv_version: 1710.02725v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1710.02725 · pith_short_12: VBOKIBSQFAOS · pith_short_16: VBOKIBSQFAOS4YI2 · pith_short_8: VBOKIBSQ

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/VBOKIBSQFAOS4YI2MTMTKROH45 \
  | 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: a85ca40650281d2e611a64d93545c7e74ece4f3518942f46b84e6e06d876774f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7003b87c5d674d85097a61555a9844b76767217bc0e0790b677894719767513c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "2017-10-07T19:17:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3e1bbf5310ad62fbe2aedd287ac0af32dbe36c8360c12e56dfe93befa27f5531"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1710.02725",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}