Pith Number

pith:6444ULLG

pith:2008:6444ULLG3INATMPSYK4LPCFHOL

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Challenging the generalized second law

Christopher Eling, Jacob D. Bekenstein

arxiv:0810.5255 v4 · 2008-10-29 · gr-qc · astro-ph · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6444ULLG3INATMPSYK4LPCFHOL}

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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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First computed	2026-05-18T03:24:54.618718Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f739ca2d66da1a09b1f2c2b8b788a772d207ab1b11aee1f5665be97d5d6f3406

Aliases

arxiv: 0810.5255 · arxiv_version: 0810.5255v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0810.5255 · pith_short_12: 6444ULLG3INA · pith_short_16: 6444ULLG3INATMPS · pith_short_8: 6444ULLG

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/6444ULLG3INATMPSYK4LPCFHOL \
  | 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: f739ca2d66da1a09b1f2c2b8b788a772d207ab1b11aee1f5665be97d5d6f3406

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "464ee11bb1eb6f0f94cb16c086e5903c745b0276c37695297028285052390149",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph",
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "2008-10-29T11:53:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cd2f03d7d9788256f87550f1736eddaba7911ead012cb4e9f9f86df4c148efa3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0810.5255",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}