Pith Number

pith:XKPHXSXG

pith:1994:XKPHXSXG7TKGOMPAWHPBV777LQ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Finite Black Hole Entropy and String Theory

Michael McGuigan

arxiv:hep-th/9406201 v1 · 1994-06-29 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XKPHXSXG7TKGOMPAWHPBV777LQ}

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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	2026-05-18T04:17:35.346974Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ba9e7bcae6fcd46731e0b1de1affff5c173a054e743c46564328007f6a064930

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9406201 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9406201v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9406201 · pith_short_12: XKPHXSXG7TKG · pith_short_16: XKPHXSXG7TKGOMPA · pith_short_8: XKPHXSXG

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/XKPHXSXG7TKGOMPAWHPBV777LQ \
  | 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: ba9e7bcae6fcd46731e0b1de1affff5c173a054e743c46564328007f6a064930

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b4d87d9e48e9f180e72ec0927124f32734e9007e70fc9dde5bc149b5f3f94a8c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1994-06-29T22:32:44Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8c9fd1319cae9be2620c36fcdbeb61e3e901e2d2127a531c7c43ef813df236cf"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9406201",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}