Pith Number

pith:6FIQTMTS

pith:2014:6FIQTMTS4GCCIFRH52JX4TTI3B

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Essential physics of early galaxy formation

Andrea Ferrara, Fabio Pacucci, James Dunlop, Pratika Dayal

arxiv:1405.4862 v2 · 2014-05-19 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6FIQTMTS4GCCIFRH52JX4TTI3B}

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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	2026-05-18T01:43:10.673562Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f15109b272e184241627ee937e4e68d845b0fec028ac796dfaa0262cecb538ce

Aliases

arxiv: 1405.4862 · arxiv_version: 1405.4862v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1405.4862 · pith_short_12: 6FIQTMTS4GCC · pith_short_16: 6FIQTMTS4GCCIFRH · pith_short_8: 6FIQTMTS

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/6FIQTMTS4GCCIFRH52JX4TTI3B \
  | 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: f15109b272e184241627ee937e4e68d845b0fec028ac796dfaa0262cecb538ce

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ba9d2186e2eae1fe800503c708a54e905ccd15cdde9fff225dc363c40fea60b1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2014-05-19T20:00:08Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0cb80b8574f10b357164a8e33c4d6b141b039f8e665caf2f8d8bc8633de5e927"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1405.4862",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}