Pith Number

pith:4PR5SQ2W

pith:2017:4PR5SQ2WGQAJ4OECWX6ZLPSE7W

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Producing Distant Planets by Mutual Scattering of Planetary Embryos

Kedron Silsbee, Scott Tremaine

arxiv:1712.03961 v1 · 2017-12-11 · astro-ph.EP

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4PR5SQ2WGQAJ4OECWX6ZLPSE7W}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:24:47.629064Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e3e3d9435634009e3882b5fd95be44fd936de151b89c9e2ad7811b157d06e389

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.03961 · arxiv_version: 1712.03961v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.03961 · pith_short_12: 4PR5SQ2WGQAJ · pith_short_16: 4PR5SQ2WGQAJ4OEC · pith_short_8: 4PR5SQ2W

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/4PR5SQ2WGQAJ4OECWX6ZLPSE7W \
  | 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: e3e3d9435634009e3882b5fd95be44fd936de151b89c9e2ad7811b157d06e389

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "150b895d13f5db956dd809f78dfb1d359ee05c6b9af22d65fce040ecdd9483b0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-11T19:00:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "96d7aa9b92b46e50d0013a4cdf87e4cbf887c4f11665d9fdc11282b4831c39b0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.03961",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}