Pith Number

pith:5CAEJ2OC

pith:2013:5CAEJ2OCIOYKJBLAZLNJWKG7IK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The return of the bow shock

Horst Fichtner, Klaus Scherer

arxiv:1312.1197 v1 · 2013-12-04 · astro-ph.SR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5CAEJ2OCIOYKJBLAZLNJWKG7IK}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:45:58.702966Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e88044e9c243b0a48560cada9b28df42b1ad6f8ca3cfee6e069ddc653e59c2eb

Aliases

arxiv: 1312.1197 · arxiv_version: 1312.1197v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1312.1197 · pith_short_12: 5CAEJ2OCIOYK · pith_short_16: 5CAEJ2OCIOYKJBLA · pith_short_8: 5CAEJ2OC

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/5CAEJ2OCIOYKJBLAZLNJWKG7IK \
  | 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: e88044e9c243b0a48560cada9b28df42b1ad6f8ca3cfee6e069ddc653e59c2eb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "aa5c4815ae99a7c4d97c155ed1bd340046ae72631ac1bc5d1a53df62bb8cbf82",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2013-12-04T15:10:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0a609c20d33d3c9fa5629111bad1db9c382035570a68ebb65fba96dfd73caaaa"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1312.1197",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}