Pith Number

pith:5UXQMWZ7

pith:2004:5UXQMWZ734BGE7N7GUZK2RT2VK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Power Law Stellar Distributions

J. A. S. Lima, R. E. de Souza

arxiv:astro-ph/0406404 v1 · 2004-06-17 · astro-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5UXQMWZ734BGE7N7GUZK2RT2VK}

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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	2026-05-18T04:17:53.675226Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ed2f065b3fdf02627dbf3532ad467aaabab241aa815b714a720cc1b3406993f3

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0406404 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0406404v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0406404 · pith_short_12: 5UXQMWZ734BG · pith_short_16: 5UXQMWZ734BGE7N7 · pith_short_8: 5UXQMWZ7

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/5UXQMWZ734BGE7N7GUZK2RT2VK \
  | 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: ed2f065b3fdf02627dbf3532ad467aaabab241aa815b714a720cc1b3406993f3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d423da42561896be1e299bf01510bbe7e644649b55734fd67fc2034aacb9c859",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2004-06-17T17:00:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c9b44306e9031cffba51085ad50322a6058ef66b3e8f57974d9bb26ca05ef5ca"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0406404",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}