Pith Number

pith:KVKA3E6S

pith:1998:KVKA3E6SFUOEVHL3MKSZ5DZXMU

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Fractals and the galaxy distribution

Francesco Sylos Labini

arxiv:astro-ph/9806318 v1 · 1998-06-24 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KVKA3E6SFUOEVHL3MKSZ5DZXMU}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T01:07:37.298065Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

55540d93d22d1c4a9d7b62a59e8f3765130804674156a6d3db4ab881c3039197

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9806318 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9806318v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9806318 · pith_short_12: KVKA3E6SFUOE · pith_short_16: KVKA3E6SFUOEVHL3 · pith_short_8: KVKA3E6S

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/KVKA3E6SFUOEVHL3MKSZ5DZXMU \
  | 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: 55540d93d22d1c4a9d7b62a59e8f3765130804674156a6d3db4ab881c3039197

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a27cd6877de4a6071e3c488037fad30bbde6a779362fb36feeed6c22ed9a2e02",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1998-06-24T10:37:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "24683abeac8692a4aa9ea945f14747a2fa7d9ed3001494e1c6730d90648f3253"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9806318",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}