Pith Number

pith:JNQWUJPY

pith:2016:JNQWUJPY35HT2AFBFY6O6BNOSU

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Probing the primordial Universe with MeerKAT and DES

Jos\'e Fonseca, M\'ario G. Santos, Roy Maartens

arxiv:1611.01322 v2 · 2016-11-04 · astro-ph.CO

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JNQWUJPY35HT2AFBFY6O6BNOSU}

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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	2026-05-18T00:48:53.749570Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4b616a25f8df4f3d00a12e3cef05ae9500e0609cd5aafe712d7a120904d490ba

Aliases

arxiv: 1611.01322 · arxiv_version: 1611.01322v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1611.01322 · pith_short_12: JNQWUJPY35HT · pith_short_16: JNQWUJPY35HT2AFB · pith_short_8: JNQWUJPY

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/JNQWUJPY35HT2AFBFY6O6BNOSU \
  | 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: 4b616a25f8df4f3d00a12e3cef05ae9500e0609cd5aafe712d7a120904d490ba

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0041bcdacbd839bcef6245d7e372cb8f5f0d77d8995823cb18e32e60debdc9be",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2016-11-04T10:51:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d9f9b304d85c1e73e852d62f91fde6a4d4fec70bbe0eb96cc8895207c853caef"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1611.01322",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}