Pith Number

pith:BKDK2QRO

pith:1998:BKDK2QROAJO5CF45MBFYMUZXZ6

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Dynamics of Mergers & Remnants

Joshua E. Barnes

arxiv:astro-ph/9811091 v1 · 1998-11-05 · astro-ph

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BKDK2QROAJO5CF45MBFYMUZXZ6}

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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	2026-07-04T14:16:17.806740Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0a86ad422e025dd1179d604b865337cfaa7990cf6c7777a6305d3dad1c26522f

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9811091 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9811091v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9811091 · pith_short_12: BKDK2QROAJO5 · pith_short_16: BKDK2QROAJO5CF45 · pith_short_8: BKDK2QRO

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/BKDK2QROAJO5CF45MBFYMUZXZ6 \
  | 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: 0a86ad422e025dd1179d604b865337cfaa7990cf6c7777a6305d3dad1c26522f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "32f7738efd40fa5869e24e99e5d414aa50e47b546fdddf1604c2f677da59756d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1998-11-05T08:00:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "67c5fa823b0f086d7b99022a60a8d4ba9d9432ec4f94ecb0848f7c0d0296393d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9811091",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}