Pith Number

pith:2EIWAPJT

pith:2017:2EIWAPJTN5QLAKAQ2WKT7FRHZG

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The limited role of galaxy mergers in driving stellar mass growth over cosmic time

C. Laigle, C. Pichon, G. Martin, J. E. G. Devriendt, S. Kaviraj, Y. Dubois

arxiv:1708.09396 v1 · 2017-08-30 · astro-ph.GA

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\pithnumber{2EIWAPJTN5QLAKAQ2WKT7FRHZG}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:35:54.926031Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d111603d336f60b02810d5953f9627c9b36a0a3487dc1aade6170335e4b47651

Aliases

arxiv: 1708.09396 · arxiv_version: 1708.09396v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.09396 · pith_short_12: 2EIWAPJTN5QL · pith_short_16: 2EIWAPJTN5QLAKAQ · pith_short_8: 2EIWAPJT

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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/2EIWAPJTN5QLAKAQ2WKT7FRHZG \
  | 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: d111603d336f60b02810d5953f9627c9b36a0a3487dc1aade6170335e4b47651

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "62274bb7ab725db8109b52090a8b0ad258855dda1bd99437e3d5ab3e0f15974f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-30T18:00:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b0f58898e161011f706f0a9ab49acc80f7b7e7d6e1502c578a702e01ac7b51a0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1708.09396",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}