Pith Number

pith:HVILMQX4

pith:2022:HVILMQX4ZLCAWGIVWSRVKVTJ2E

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Straight Lightning Bolt?! Observation of a Predicted Macro Dark Matter Signature

Glenn D. Starkman, Harrison Winch, Jagjit Singh Sidhu, Nathaniel Starkman

arxiv:2202.12428 v2 · 2022-02-24 · astro-ph.GA · astro-ph.CO · hep-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HVILMQX4ZLCAWGIVWSRVKVTJ2E}

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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	2026-07-05T04:01:12.577042Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3d50b642fccac40b1915b4a3555669d10af7af11ebc86d9a515a1282c3a12eee

Aliases

arxiv: 2202.12428 · arxiv_version: 2202.12428v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2202.12428 · pith_short_12: HVILMQX4ZLCA · pith_short_16: HVILMQX4ZLCAWGIV · pith_short_8: HVILMQX4

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/HVILMQX4ZLCAWGIVWSRVKVTJ2E \
  | 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: 3d50b642fccac40b1915b4a3555669d10af7af11ebc86d9a515a1282c3a12eee

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "af94d0828741f3b23e7db7ff4b90fed6adefb04c8c13c659f206d3101ef6a590",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.CO",
      "hep-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2022-02-24T23:51:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d3bd61ef9d74fb653f36996269ec28ae82fa20086eb31060d85025fe5abccfc7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2202.12428",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}