Pith Number

pith:C2NKTPFH

pith:2026:C2NKTPFHALEGJKSU2WVNZFJHT7

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The diffraction-lensing interpretation of GW231123 with astrophysical priors

Ajit Kumar Mehta, Digvijay Wadekar, Javier Roulet, Mark Ho-Yeuk Cheung, Matias Zaldarriaga, Tejaswi Venumadhav

arxiv:2607.21834 v1 · 2026-07-23 · astro-ph.CO · astro-ph.GA · astro-ph.HE · gr-qc

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{C2NKTPFHALEGJKSU2WVNZFJHT7}

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First computed	2026-07-27T00:20:23.344514Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

169aa9bca702c864aa54d5aadc95279fffe4480e71366250dcd069578ac9ad2d

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.21834 · arxiv_version: 2607.21834v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.21834 · pith_short_12: C2NKTPFHALEG · pith_short_16: C2NKTPFHALEGJKSU · pith_short_8: C2NKTPFH

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/C2NKTPFHALEGJKSU2WVNZFJHT7 \
  | 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: 169aa9bca702c864aa54d5aadc95279fffe4480e71366250dcd069578ac9ad2d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "af9b8766e95eb048e2da901757342667f6596d54e96e24e6401fa43b94ee0b18",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.GA",
      "astro-ph.HE",
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-23T21:52:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6f50502504d432f542114356e3020e040301e4d4ddfae1f7085082a524193b75"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.21834",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}