Pith Number

pith:7OUJ3PTE

pith:2017:7OUJ3PTEU4LQMGLE2H5OIDSX4K

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Origin of the RNA World: The Fate of Nucleobases in Warm Little Ponds

Ben K. D. Pearce, Dmitry A. Semenov, Ralph E. Pudritz, Thomas K. Henning

arxiv:1710.00434 v1 · 2017-10-01 · astro-ph.EP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{7OUJ3PTEU4LQMGLE2H5OIDSX4K}

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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	2026-05-18T00:32:00.882791Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

fba89dbe64a717061964d1fae40e57e2bd409e3293b314190699669cc3e995e0

Aliases

arxiv: 1710.00434 · arxiv_version: 1710.00434v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1710.00434 · pith_short_12: 7OUJ3PTEU4LQ · pith_short_16: 7OUJ3PTEU4LQMGLE · pith_short_8: 7OUJ3PTE

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/7OUJ3PTEU4LQMGLE2H5OIDSX4K \
  | 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: fba89dbe64a717061964d1fae40e57e2bd409e3293b314190699669cc3e995e0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ec053a2d0869adbd1f3b26de36dccd736ef2f78bf863d9282299c733a148a8f3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2017-10-01T23:20:33Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d709035f7031d050772f98d7209e4393eeb28911953f50e547b3f237399c37ee"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1710.00434",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}