Pith Number

pith:MM5U6DJ2

pith:1997:MM5U6DJ2NO6JGSJXWK4ZTQHQZA

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Reconnection in the ISM

A. Lazarian, Ethan T. Vishniac

arxiv:astro-ph/9712067 v1 · 1997-12-04 · astro-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MM5U6DJ2NO6JGSJXWK4ZTQHQZA}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T01:40:14.813088Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

633b4f0d3a6bbc934937b2b999c0f0c828540d9ab6902f4658adb5cc00f5a37f

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9712067 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9712067v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9712067 · pith_short_12: MM5U6DJ2NO6J · pith_short_16: MM5U6DJ2NO6JGSJX · pith_short_8: MM5U6DJ2

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/MM5U6DJ2NO6JGSJXWK4ZTQHQZA \
  | 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: 633b4f0d3a6bbc934937b2b999c0f0c828540d9ab6902f4658adb5cc00f5a37f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a130cb1eecd20ce05e4d63e68a0a894c766c56220a7101ff84b847d9be2d1d72",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1997-12-04T17:10:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b0d38bfa08feaa6b780e531b4e735d1db1b7ef77b7a680668638aef0f5e917c4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9712067",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}