Pith Number

pith:4I35ZKE6

pith:2024:4I35ZKE6X2Z7UPR7OFVDYONVQN

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Virtual Realities: Is there only one advanced image display that astronomers need?

Brian Brady, Christopher J. Fluke, Hugo K. Walsh, Lewis de Zoete Grundy

arxiv:2412.12383 v1 · 2024-12-16 · astro-ph.IM

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4I35ZKE6X2Z7UPR7OFVDYONVQN}

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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	2026-07-05T09:50:14.102570Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e237dca89ebeb3fa3e3f716a3c39b58358bb8a5a78ce3e6a2e6bf1cc3e724f2b

Aliases

arxiv: 2412.12383 · arxiv_version: 2412.12383v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2412.12383 · pith_short_12: 4I35ZKE6X2Z7 · pith_short_16: 4I35ZKE6X2Z7UPR7 · pith_short_8: 4I35ZKE6

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/4I35ZKE6X2Z7UPR7OFVDYONVQN \
  | 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: e237dca89ebeb3fa3e3f716a3c39b58358bb8a5a78ce3e6a2e6bf1cc3e724f2b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ef8ca923b9160f4bfd78895580da8c261350fa4b3ab4fa04655e8169455ff67e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.IM",
    "submitted_at": "2024-12-16T22:35:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "edb0b631198d2bbfefe2cd3d57c1dc6f17aaefd68346b578aa4b43efcf66aaf9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2412.12383",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}