Pith Number

pith:JB62LPWA

pith:2006:JB62LPWA3L2FLWVY5XURIDZVYZ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Cosmic Conspiracies

Ali Frolop, Douglas Scott

arxiv:astro-ph/0604011 v1 · 2006-04-02 · astro-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JB62LPWA3L2FLWVY5XURIDZVYZ}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T04:24:44.702893Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

487da5bec0daf455dab8ede9140f35c657a87b10300d8900982bf8094f34803f

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0604011 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0604011v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0604011 · pith_short_12: JB62LPWA3L2F · pith_short_16: JB62LPWA3L2FLWVY · pith_short_8: JB62LPWA

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/JB62LPWA3L2FLWVY5XURIDZVYZ \
  | 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: 487da5bec0daf455dab8ede9140f35c657a87b10300d8900982bf8094f34803f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "551a8fc93b154902db3ea3162f9419e6265a767fb17f2f77716df26a7af2bbeb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2006-04-02T06:36:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9a6fcb478cedb46e420d0edc0bb1c5c3b5bbd6614d7a0aa32d85e586f301449b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0604011",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}