Pith Number

pith:JR3VEGYN

pith:2004:JR3VEGYNPYGX56ALZYKJLSD5UH

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A minimum hypothesis explanation for an IMF with a lognormal body and power law tail

C. E. Jones (UWO), Shantanu Basu (UWO)

arxiv:astro-ph/0411419 v1 · 2004-11-15 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JR3VEGYNPYGX56ALZYKJLSD5UH}

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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	2026-05-18T01:27:16.415490Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4c77521b0d7e0d7ef80bce1495c87da1ed25567426ecb4425a226b28b49a4003

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0411419 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0411419v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0411419 · pith_short_12: JR3VEGYNPYGX · pith_short_16: JR3VEGYNPYGX56AL · pith_short_8: JR3VEGYN

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/JR3VEGYNPYGX56ALZYKJLSD5UH \
  | 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: 4c77521b0d7e0d7ef80bce1495c87da1ed25567426ecb4425a226b28b49a4003

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f0d076feb8080692fe82907ab759d307a505d29391f6f4077eea5b4c8e4d364b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2004-11-15T18:38:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "42465dd9c430981b069c3fdad63dd616000af7e57152bf1822b6be2f1fc2d5ef"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0411419",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}