Pith Number

pith:KIUCEE55

pith:1999:KIUCEE55QTO4YDTX4XRZ5543Z6

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Cosmic Microwave Background: Past, Future, and Present

Scott Dodelson

arxiv:hep-ph/9912470 v1 · 1999-12-22 · hep-ph · astro-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KIUCEE55QTO4YDTX4XRZ5543Z6}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T02:36:21.436307Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

52282213bd84ddcc0e77e5e39ef79bcf9536ee28140da4f4e013f85f7dba4eeb

Aliases

arxiv: hep-ph/9912470 · arxiv_version: hep-ph/9912470v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/9912470 · pith_short_12: KIUCEE55QTO4 · pith_short_16: KIUCEE55QTO4YDTX · pith_short_8: KIUCEE55

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/KIUCEE55QTO4YDTX4XRZ5543Z6 \
  | 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: 52282213bd84ddcc0e77e5e39ef79bcf9536ee28140da4f4e013f85f7dba4eeb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d823790307f4ca669acbf91740b01e471aadb99d2ab59fceba0f845ae42fb4c1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1999-12-22T16:22:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "284f27bfaa0ffc0e74c6bb66d9f0584c96514f5d22e51127746db460f696aae5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-ph/9912470",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}