Pith Number

pith:5LWTCRNC

pith:2017:5LWTCRNCJK2PDJYBC2JDM4SL3J

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

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Andr\'e Schaaff, Brian Major, Giuliano Taffoni, Guy Rixon

arxiv:1709.00171 v1 · 2017-09-01 · astro-ph.IM

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5LWTCRNCJK2PDJYBC2JDM4SL3J}

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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	2026-05-17T23:44:22.956635Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

eaed3145a24ab4f1a701169236724bda54b4a0f5d73d4f7f66472b5fe495e6a1

Aliases

arxiv: 1709.00171 · arxiv_version: 1709.00171v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1709.00171 · pith_short_12: 5LWTCRNCJK2P · pith_short_16: 5LWTCRNCJK2PDJYB · pith_short_8: 5LWTCRNC

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/5LWTCRNCJK2PDJYBC2JDM4SL3J \
  | 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: eaed3145a24ab4f1a701169236724bda54b4a0f5d73d4f7f66472b5fe495e6a1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b7089a40f7693b98871ec7eff22438c85f8e2b65e5733ce2c793f1b2d33bf445",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.IM",
    "submitted_at": "2017-09-01T06:31:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7c7a11c91bd0fbe5b8121423c188791d4707db49ff14deb1ea9feb79cdc25c14"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1709.00171",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}