Pith Number

pith:2O2CTBXU

pith:2006:2O2CTBXUG35HMJK2KVXUQNB5QM

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A New Approach to the Optimal Target Selection Problem

B. A. Bassett, E. C. Elson, K. van der Heyden, Z. Z. Vilakazi

arxiv:astro-ph/0602338 v2 · 2006-02-15 · astro-ph · cond-mat.dis-nn

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2O2CTBXUG35HMJK2KVXUQNB5QM}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-07-04T16:57:59.586470Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d3b42986f436fa76255a556f48343d831a693d61da802d408a754b8585222840

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0602338 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0602338v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0602338 · pith_short_12: 2O2CTBXUG35H · pith_short_16: 2O2CTBXUG35HMJK2 · pith_short_8: 2O2CTBXU

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/2O2CTBXUG35HMJK2KVXUQNB5QM \
  | 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: d3b42986f436fa76255a556f48343d831a693d61da802d408a754b8585222840

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "89db4a8f166b1a9f74e2d4aeb318d9908e528b017eda84f0bc06a612819d6658",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cond-mat.dis-nn"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2006-02-15T11:21:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2f558d92191a51fa7e7cde2bebb4664174cdc394dc424743e31f9505b3b8c43a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0602338",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}