Pith Number

pith:KF3MKEL6

pith:2002:KF3MKEL6KFTFLMX4GV3ZWZFJOY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

CMB Temperature and Polarization Anisotropy Fundamentals

U Chicago), Wayne Hu (CfCP

arxiv:astro-ph/0210696 v1 · 2002-10-31 · astro-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KF3MKEL6KFTFLMX4GV3ZWZFJOY}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T04:22:19.932824Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5176c5117e516655b2fc35779b64a97625d4624fece2529d1bddb28c4b267876

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0210696 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0210696v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0210696 · pith_short_12: KF3MKEL6KFTF · pith_short_16: KF3MKEL6KFTFLMX4 · pith_short_8: KF3MKEL6

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/KF3MKEL6KFTFLMX4GV3ZWZFJOY \
  | 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: 5176c5117e516655b2fc35779b64a97625d4624fece2529d1bddb28c4b267876

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2a89e5898fc49fb81ebdbbfd64364d9a5f697744bba954ed214539e3199ef5a4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2002-10-31T19:47:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "25b5ccdaaa1f89c2d4364ea46a1c2e6e30591c5dabfed8a23f2907a3ea5673e7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0210696",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}