Pith Number

pith:3KTLEJ34

pith:2011:3KTLEJ34VKN5ETZZWPVPNSCMER

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Can the maximum mass of neutron stars rule out any equation of state of dense stellar matter before gravity is well understood?

Bao-An Li, De-Hua Wen, Lie-Wen Chen

arxiv:1101.1504 v1 · 2011-01-07 · astro-ph.SR · nucl-ex · nucl-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3KTLEJ34VKN5ETZZWPVPNSCMER}

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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	2026-05-18T04:31:51.421251Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

daa6b2277caa9bd24f39b3eaf6c84c2452e871e5be3fd801d988f4d9360c84dd

Aliases

arxiv: 1101.1504 · arxiv_version: 1101.1504v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1101.1504 · pith_short_12: 3KTLEJ34VKN5 · pith_short_16: 3KTLEJ34VKN5ETZZ · pith_short_8: 3KTLEJ34

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/3KTLEJ34VKN5ETZZWPVPNSCMER \
  | 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: daa6b2277caa9bd24f39b3eaf6c84c2452e871e5be3fd801d988f4d9360c84dd

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "43876095f7fcfa4cbee08f8ac0ac60f8839d211ee17da9f55f2f579738c85e38",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "nucl-ex",
      "nucl-th"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2011-01-07T19:14:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4a8bf2955e7491a21f9740f86890efd7047bf92ec16a9d5e2fea2c1c93628d69"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1101.1504",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}