Pith Number

pith:BNKV4PNH

pith:2010:BNKV4PNHMAPS23TYY5LE5HYNLA

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Multiplicity in 5 Msun Stars

Nancy Remage Evans

arxiv:1010.2939 v1 · 2010-10-14 · astro-ph.SR

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BNKV4PNHMAPS23TYY5LE5HYNLA}

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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	2026-05-18T01:21:14.280088Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0b555e3da7601f2d6e78c7564e9f0d582397127a7427e7aa5995b6eb1f6911e2

Aliases

arxiv: 1010.2939 · arxiv_version: 1010.2939v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1010.2939 · pith_short_12: BNKV4PNHMAPS · pith_short_16: BNKV4PNHMAPS23TY · pith_short_8: BNKV4PNH

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/BNKV4PNHMAPS23TYY5LE5HYNLA \
  | 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: 0b555e3da7601f2d6e78c7564e9f0d582397127a7427e7aa5995b6eb1f6911e2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "49777593a9ac0d79826f606d524407b053540bd319031669815cdc3c58114a94",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2010-10-14T14:41:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d7f9503baa490821486981c3ca96cc64478b56eabd0bf22a07f5c4c28feba67c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1010.2939",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}