Pith Number

pith:JD34O2QK

pith:1996:JD34O2QK357VYXH5645AJFBMOB

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Evolution of a Primordial Galactic Magnetic Field

Armando M. Howard, Russell M. Kulsrud

arxiv:astro-ph/9609031 v1 · 1996-09-04 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JD34O2QK357VYXH5645AJFBMOB}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:07:40.861609Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

48f7c76a0adf7f5c5cfdf73a04942c7054e2d1f8e92e1aa42c724c78c75cf99b

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9609031 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9609031v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9609031 · pith_short_12: JD34O2QK357V · pith_short_16: JD34O2QK357VYXH5 · pith_short_8: JD34O2QK

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/JD34O2QK357VYXH5645AJFBMOB \
  | 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: 48f7c76a0adf7f5c5cfdf73a04942c7054e2d1f8e92e1aa42c724c78c75cf99b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e7af4e61cdc6737850952e38dd71062d8358256d83ebb11df08b940ee13809f4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1996-09-04T16:11:10Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2a2a565be9b3113f5765520d2ad9c13dea79f92873dac7318504bf0c1e89c2f4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9609031",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}