Pith Number

pith:FTN6NYCE

pith:1996:FTN6NYCEMXZUCMWXDNIO5DDKJC

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Globular Cluster Evolution in M87 and Fundamental Plane Ellipticals

Amherst), C. Murali, M. D. Weinberg (University of Massachusetts

arxiv:astro-ph/9602058 v2 · 1996-02-13 · astro-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{FTN6NYCEMXZUCMWXDNIO5DDKJC}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:40:21.836710Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2cdbe6e04465f34132d71b50ee8c6a48a749b44eab93f27284580f9da0531f28

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9602058 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9602058v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9602058 · pith_short_12: FTN6NYCEMXZU · pith_short_16: FTN6NYCEMXZUCMWX · pith_short_8: FTN6NYCE

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/FTN6NYCEMXZUCMWXDNIO5DDKJC \
  | 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: 2cdbe6e04465f34132d71b50ee8c6a48a749b44eab93f27284580f9da0531f28

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c46e91d1fd720926c9abb583e68b3ec0505ffb67a56443601b6e4709fd5edf82",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1996-02-13T03:33:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bad9113f72ac9928d8d47f7d1334b5cdae6605939b6d58327e32a701e5deaf8d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9602058",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}