Pith Number

pith:MM6UVLXW

pith:2015:MM6UVLXWHU7FEUMSKCILIJPKZI

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Molecular clouds have power-law probability distribution functions

Charles J. Lada, Jo\~ao Alves, Marco Lombardi

arxiv:1502.03859 v1 · 2015-02-12 · astro-ph.SR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MM6UVLXWHU7FEUMSKCILIJPKZI}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:41:03.466871Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

633d4aaef63d3e5251925090b425eaca049872c511da2be22cb3ccae13d40621

Aliases

arxiv: 1502.03859 · arxiv_version: 1502.03859v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1502.03859 · pith_short_12: MM6UVLXWHU7F · pith_short_16: MM6UVLXWHU7FEUMS · pith_short_8: MM6UVLXW

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/MM6UVLXWHU7FEUMSKCILIJPKZI \
  | 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: 633d4aaef63d3e5251925090b425eaca049872c511da2be22cb3ccae13d40621

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e6ff4b7a8e1a0b3bd6966de38b6eec18390dd194ada5672d688fee12f6b24d12",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2015-02-12T23:52:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "42e31c4547d770598ab63de5ec319546ddea7d74027ec8517019e6ec1b3fb666"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1502.03859",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}