Pith Number

pith:AWUL4XYI

pith:2017:AWUL4XYISBSCACEMA3GQN64SFF

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Open Flux Problem

A. Yeates, C. Downs, C. J. Henney, C. N. Arge, J. A. Linker, M. J. Owens, M. L. Derosa, P Riley, R. Lionello, R. M. Caplan, Y. Liu, Z Mikic

arxiv:1708.02342 v2 · 2017-08-08 · astro-ph.SR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{AWUL4XYISBSCACEMA3GQN64SFF}

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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	2026-05-18T00:32:39.475799Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

05a8be5f08906420088c06cd06fb92294de14b07d836a9e48c92b1d18ced3bdc

Aliases

arxiv: 1708.02342 · arxiv_version: 1708.02342v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.02342 · pith_short_12: AWUL4XYISBSC · pith_short_16: AWUL4XYISBSCACEM · pith_short_8: AWUL4XYI

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/AWUL4XYISBSCACEMA3GQN64SFF \
  | 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: 05a8be5f08906420088c06cd06fb92294de14b07d836a9e48c92b1d18ced3bdc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "962edeb26262ac9d37b9c5fa147e9fb6d6d04313b01a1769e3464017f7210fab",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-08T01:18:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "96b9e3ae846671cb0a52dfc702279007ceb59dab1b47172fe45bce3063482002"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1708.02342",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}