Pith Number

pith:4BVDMOYM

pith:2017:4BVDMOYMUBFNG6C3TROJMUYA4Q

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

On the Prospects for Detecting a Net Photon Circular Polarization Produced by Decaying Dark Matter

Andrey Elagin, Fei Teng, Jason Kumar, Pearl Sandick

arxiv:1709.03058 v3 · 2017-09-10 · astro-ph.CO · astro-ph.IM · hep-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4BVDMOYMUBFNG6C3TROJMUYA4Q}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:12:24.888841Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e06a363b0ca04ad3785b9c5c965300e404d47d6613ee4d9fb1dbae8fd9776746

Aliases

arxiv: 1709.03058 · arxiv_version: 1709.03058v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1709.03058 · pith_short_12: 4BVDMOYMUBFN · pith_short_16: 4BVDMOYMUBFNG6C3 · pith_short_8: 4BVDMOYM

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/4BVDMOYMUBFNG6C3TROJMUYA4Q \
  | 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: e06a363b0ca04ad3785b9c5c965300e404d47d6613ee4d9fb1dbae8fd9776746

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "226dcc915e5a1fe620a460b93d812096065266859cdcae5c5d80298cd6903e0b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.IM",
      "hep-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2017-09-10T06:59:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2a71d4920f22e954154f7c8b713909843cc55e3ef11695748b4ff9729be349f5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1709.03058",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}