Pith Number

pith:4AIN23N4

pith:2016:4AIN23N4GPX72POOQKVP6GG7MQ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Draining the Local Void

Edward J. Shaya, Ehsan Kourkchi, Igor D. Karachentsev, Luca Rizzi, R. Brent Tully

arxiv:1611.05516 v1 · 2016-11-17 · astro-ph.GA

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4AIN23N4GPX72POOQKVP6GG7MQ}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T00:52:13.859090Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e010dd6dbc33effd3dce82aaff18df640fe028588f1eac773ee228208c8b663f

Aliases

arxiv: 1611.05516 · arxiv_version: 1611.05516v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1611.05516 · pith_short_12: 4AIN23N4GPX7 · pith_short_16: 4AIN23N4GPX72POO · pith_short_8: 4AIN23N4

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/4AIN23N4GPX72POOQKVP6GG7MQ \
  | 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: e010dd6dbc33effd3dce82aaff18df640fe028588f1eac773ee228208c8b663f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "45b17a4439032f2278e6c2a8a29f9619fb6e8c3ba2f4cd9879138fcbd8ac7396",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2016-11-17T00:29:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "beca7d400231af6d5805372461e42e37449ede57e563db294257a0c2cc0e3681"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1611.05516",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}