Pith Number

pith:ITW5XAI6

pith:1996:ITW5XAI6MWZ37Q4SYWAQ7PUOXX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Depolarization of the cosmic microwave background by a primordial magnetic field and its effect upon temperature anisotropy

Diego Harari, Justin Hayward, Matias Zaldarriaga

arxiv:astro-ph/9608098 v1 · 1996-08-15 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ITW5XAI6MWZ37Q4SYWAQ7PUOXX}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T02:40:35.284243Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

44eddb811e65b3bfc392c5810fbe8ebdc6aa08c45c8f2c0372185f4e58e34859

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9608098 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9608098v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9608098 · pith_short_12: ITW5XAI6MWZ3 · pith_short_16: ITW5XAI6MWZ37Q4S · pith_short_8: ITW5XAI6

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/ITW5XAI6MWZ37Q4SYWAQ7PUOXX \
  | 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: 44eddb811e65b3bfc392c5810fbe8ebdc6aa08c45c8f2c0372185f4e58e34859

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6b54bc5f0e11ffb4521d5bbc8606b6216a0fcc75f1402234cfb1fd988684af23",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1996-08-15T11:22:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bbd533444d4dbd3e6ee9d8df1306bbf53e1a608b2822718036bbbb1680549efe"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9608098",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}