Pith Number

pith:3UIBZLSB

pith:1998:3UIBZLSBNCR7DDWKB3FKVB5QRE

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Structure of Structure Formation Theories

Daniel J. Eisenstein (IAS, Princeton), Wayne Hu

arxiv:astro-ph/9809368 v1 · 1998-09-29 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3UIBZLSBNCR7DDWKB3FKVB5QRE}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T04:18:14.267007Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

dd101cae4168a3f18eca0ecaaa87b0892cdc869fdca28e78dda1987e90169247

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9809368 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9809368v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9809368 · pith_short_12: 3UIBZLSBNCR7 · pith_short_16: 3UIBZLSBNCR7DDWK · pith_short_8: 3UIBZLSB

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/3UIBZLSBNCR7DDWKB3FKVB5QRE \
  | 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: dd101cae4168a3f18eca0ecaaa87b0892cdc869fdca28e78dda1987e90169247

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2d95f9ac726c3d16bfdf89c1925762d1e4ab6eec8ab13d6de0d830476e5a5510",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1998-09-29T23:03:26Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a7bdb5291b7b2940713bc2abd84ed17a701f851e2f7c1f16daaf4155798d32cb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9809368",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}