Pith Number

pith:MIZJOYJ3

pith:2010:MIZJOYJ3FVU2QQM4JD3XDPSJHI

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Global Citizen of the Skies

D. Brown, N. Neale

arxiv:1009.5289 v1 · 2010-09-27 · physics.ed-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MIZJOYJ3FVU2QQM4JD3XDPSJHI}

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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	2026-05-18T04:40:18.905994Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

623297613b2d69a8419c48f771be493a0e52e3d084bf7db561a1d09dffd2fbb1

Aliases

arxiv: 1009.5289 · arxiv_version: 1009.5289v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1009.5289 · pith_short_12: MIZJOYJ3FVU2 · pith_short_16: MIZJOYJ3FVU2QQM4 · pith_short_8: MIZJOYJ3

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/MIZJOYJ3FVU2QQM4JD3XDPSJHI \
  | 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: 623297613b2d69a8419c48f771be493a0e52e3d084bf7db561a1d09dffd2fbb1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "29d7b4fd3b1054b5c86211f86797bd8b49a2f9755cbb9de627e5833360b2e376",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.ed-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2010-09-27T15:29:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a876aa7cbea2753b9ad58d2920872ba625fbd35d6fd0045ca90aeb609222dec6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1009.5289",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}