Pith Number

pith:AW3MNRQL

pith:2019:AW3MNRQLW2EG7DHURTY3NQGKEU

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

When did Life Likely Emerge on Earth in an RNA-First Process?

Arthur Omran, Dustin Trail, Elisa Biondi, Elizabeth A. Bell, Hyo-Joong Kim, Matthew A. Pasek, Ramon Brasser, Stephen J. Mojzsis, Steven A. Benner, Thomas Carell

arxiv:1908.11327 v1 · 2019-08-29 · astro-ph.EP · physics.bio-ph · physics.chem-ph · physics.geo-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{AW3MNRQLW2EG7DHURTY3NQGKEU}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-07-05T03:40:26.018820Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

05b6c6c60bb6886f8cf48cf1b6c0ca2525bf764943698d27e2ca4d8dce757c21

Aliases

arxiv: 1908.11327 · arxiv_version: 1908.11327v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1908.11327 · pith_short_12: AW3MNRQLW2EG · pith_short_16: AW3MNRQLW2EG7DHU · pith_short_8: AW3MNRQL

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/AW3MNRQLW2EG7DHURTY3NQGKEU \
  | 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: 05b6c6c60bb6886f8cf48cf1b6c0ca2525bf764943698d27e2ca4d8dce757c21

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2271b3e726122539b80efd6124d6aa72d1395411915b86a03b76d3d5df1883a8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.bio-ph",
      "physics.chem-ph",
      "physics.geo-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2019-08-29T16:17:55Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b9cdd7fac54a50add21a0b6d3aa0ae64ac5caf61cf46faecdd8b4f4b39b23c40"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1908.11327",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}