Pith Number

pith:EBGWFQ4F

pith:2017:EBGWFQ4F65QVR5AT4NLBMK2XBZ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Stellar mass functions and implications for a variable IMF

A. Meert, F. Shankar, H. Dominguez-Sanchez, J.-L. Fischer, K.-H. Chae, M. Bernardi, M. Huertas-Company, R. K. Sheth, V. Vikram

arxiv:1710.07296 v2 · 2017-10-19 · astro-ph.GA · astro-ph.CO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{EBGWFQ4F65QVR5AT4NLBMK2XBZ}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:24:48.869575Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

204d62c385f76158f413e356162b570e4d770e03f82f527790ce31bcf536dc24

Aliases

arxiv: 1710.07296 · arxiv_version: 1710.07296v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1710.07296 · pith_short_12: EBGWFQ4F65QV · pith_short_16: EBGWFQ4F65QVR5AT · pith_short_8: EBGWFQ4F

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/EBGWFQ4F65QVR5AT4NLBMK2XBZ \
  | 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: 204d62c385f76158f413e356162b570e4d770e03f82f527790ce31bcf536dc24

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "be95b7ecc76b6d1c1c1e6f58237d98eda821eb282a08ef05d4a50a060e81265b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.CO"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2017-10-19T18:00:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "50861b8c0f6fad204a963cee9b9cff8045c7a4cdbaef787d5e0d731a0555fabb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1710.07296",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}