Pith Number

pith:A3UXHQVQ

pith:2017:A3UXHQVQOLS6BBVSBQJDJNOB3F

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The optimal search for an astrophysical gravitational-wave background

Eric Thrane, Rory Smith

arxiv:1712.00688 v2 · 2017-12-03 · gr-qc · astro-ph.HE · astro-ph.IM

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{A3UXHQVQOLS6BBVSBQJDJNOB3F}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:17:42.030768Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

06e973c2b072e5e086b20c1234b5c1d9757285e1682464d4ddc4d9c6d4134950

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.00688 · arxiv_version: 1712.00688v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.00688 · pith_short_12: A3UXHQVQOLS6 · pith_short_16: A3UXHQVQOLS6BBVS · pith_short_8: A3UXHQVQ

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/A3UXHQVQOLS6BBVSBQJDJNOB3F \
  | 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: 06e973c2b072e5e086b20c1234b5c1d9757285e1682464d4ddc4d9c6d4134950

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "33da676a9cf642ffc216bf8b948b7cf76200e9f5c2ede237f13eb595a47f82bc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.HE",
      "astro-ph.IM"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-03T00:55:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cb102ab2f9836410e11b57d28317a6bf9dced7a5ce20ead0a27952ee9f108a6b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.00688",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}