Pith Number

pith:LQIXAZLG

pith:2017:LQIXAZLGXTRPNQQPQTDTSPUBZA

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Star Formation Induced by Cloud-Cloud Collisions and Galactic Giant Molecular Cloud Evolution

Hiroshi Kobayashi, Masato I.N. Kobayashi, Shu-ichiro Inutsuka, Yasuo Fukui

arxiv:1708.07952 v2 · 2017-08-26 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LQIXAZLGXTRPNQQPQTDTSPUBZA}

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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	2026-05-18T00:15:30.608884Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5c11706566bce2f6c20f84c7393e81c8365d873b7cf03065293ce9ba063cbbf2

Aliases

arxiv: 1708.07952 · arxiv_version: 1708.07952v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.07952 · pith_short_12: LQIXAZLGXTRP · pith_short_16: LQIXAZLGXTRPNQQP · pith_short_8: LQIXAZLG

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/LQIXAZLGXTRPNQQPQTDTSPUBZA \
  | 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: 5c11706566bce2f6c20f84c7393e81c8365d873b7cf03065293ce9ba063cbbf2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a9b2b8079ef651263210d473d7c55184230f0c40c418ce0b6875f3d823d456e2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-26T08:58:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e46ff850a81b73becc6bf2a93261d267c7d4f06989549085602d9f8b8ca648c2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1708.07952",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}