Pith Number

pith:BVJRKXJE

pith:2014:BVJRKXJEHWV7SM63IGPJSVAQYQ

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Early formation of massive, compact, spheroidal galaxies with classical profiles by violent disc instability or mergers

Avishai Dekel, Daniel Ceverino, Dylan Tweed, Joel Primack

arxiv:1409.2622 v2 · 2014-09-09 · astro-ph.GA · astro-ph.CO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BVJRKXJEHWV7SM63IGPJSVAQYQ}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:42:06.204326Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0d53155d243dabf933db419e995410c40316718077b0cc83c5c16f4ec4e4fcca

Aliases

arxiv: 1409.2622 · arxiv_version: 1409.2622v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1409.2622 · pith_short_12: BVJRKXJEHWV7 · pith_short_16: BVJRKXJEHWV7SM63 · pith_short_8: BVJRKXJE

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/BVJRKXJEHWV7SM63IGPJSVAQYQ \
  | 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: 0d53155d243dabf933db419e995410c40316718077b0cc83c5c16f4ec4e4fcca

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3b6b202e36c69f0e346d20add9a5c5862f947199cd4097b028d70b3a5dc3ec93",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.CO"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2014-09-09T07:39:52Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "26d8fb5c6c4b776476ba4664baa07d240feae59233b2bd98926d0c55e1ed58e0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1409.2622",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}