Pith Number

pith:VDCTZC32

pith:2005:VDCTZC32YKHV5Z2QMZ5ETFCJCG

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Library of Babel: On the origin of gravitational thermodynamics

Jan de Boer, Joan Simon, Vijay Balasubramanian, Vishnu Jejjala

arxiv:hep-th/0508023 v2 · 2005-08-03 · hep-th

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\pithnumber{VDCTZC32YKHV5Z2QMZ5ETFCJCG}

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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.

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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T04:12:00.947857Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a8c53c8b7ac28f5ee750667a49944911a8b564c3a69ef6f20d31290bea81cdfa

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/0508023 · arxiv_version: hep-th/0508023v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0508023 · pith_short_12: VDCTZC32YKHV · pith_short_16: VDCTZC32YKHV5Z2Q · pith_short_8: VDCTZC32

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/VDCTZC32YKHV5Z2QMZ5ETFCJCG \
  | 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: a8c53c8b7ac28f5ee750667a49944911a8b564c3a69ef6f20d31290bea81cdfa

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "83540cf04b046ab75bfb0ac75ef808fbda089728f9d99a30172d46699e468f5b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2005-08-03T18:39:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "079ae9651e78d859552d8d516414f49044f39cc2f01931bef12e5ad2e0bae636"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/0508023",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}