Pith Number

pith:CFONYBGD

pith:2014:CFONYBGDPTMOBSWZNQEH4CMKP2

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A mechanism for hysteresis in black hole binary state transitions

Mitchell C. Begelman, Philip J. Armitage

arxiv:1401.5475 v1 · 2014-01-21 · astro-ph.HE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{CFONYBGDPTMOBSWZNQEH4CMKP2}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:45:18.237359Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

115cdc04c37cd8e0cad96c087e098a7e97817b80e1f7b323f89baf30efee3a4a

Aliases

arxiv: 1401.5475 · arxiv_version: 1401.5475v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1401.5475 · pith_short_12: CFONYBGDPTMO · pith_short_16: CFONYBGDPTMOBSWZ · pith_short_8: CFONYBGD

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/CFONYBGDPTMOBSWZNQEH4CMKP2 \
  | 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: 115cdc04c37cd8e0cad96c087e098a7e97817b80e1f7b323f89baf30efee3a4a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c3a677df8f1b1f30fa804b848c6eb469c14dc2ea96170c21d6c9d430fc02ecbb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2014-01-21T21:00:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f00f38fbcd851d465080ee10adafd64f1d32f37f340b804761689ffa21a35757"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1401.5475",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}