Pith Number

pith:BE5R25XG

pith:2016:BE5R25XGD5AF2UUBG47UK7MMCN

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Alignment of Quasar Polarizations on Large Scales Explained by Warped Cosmic Strings

Reinoud Jan Slagter

arxiv:1602.08292 v2 · 2016-02-26 · gr-qc

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BE5R25XGD5AF2UUBG47UK7MMCN}

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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	2026-05-18T01:16:40.412285Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

093b1d76e61f405d5281373f457d8c13781a5abaa5f5fb4536bc893bdd2fbd10

Aliases

arxiv: 1602.08292 · arxiv_version: 1602.08292v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1602.08292 · pith_short_12: BE5R25XGD5AF · pith_short_16: BE5R25XGD5AF2UUB · pith_short_8: BE5R25XG

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/BE5R25XGD5AF2UUBG47UK7MMCN \
  | 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: 093b1d76e61f405d5281373f457d8c13781a5abaa5f5fb4536bc893bdd2fbd10

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "da669ca4b8be30d535eb756482b09e428683bec52bff67725072a1b6564a970c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "2016-02-26T12:24:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ad40548836747c7c21a8127500f78ca3224474423317e45138c2524f8aa8bedf"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1602.08292",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}