Pith Number

pith:MONCRQDV

pith:2012:MONCRQDVT6QZH432USBW4BBEFZ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Comment on the "Excess ellipticity of hot and cold spots WMAP data?" by Berntsen, E. and Hansen, F.K

A. L. Kashin, G. Yegoryan

arxiv:1212.2718 v1 · 2012-12-12 · astro-ph.CO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MONCRQDVT6QZH432USBW4BBEFZ}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T03:38:35.607053Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

639a28c0759fa193f37aa4836e04242e53f7616687fc25adb36dfd6ee2a5b013

Aliases

arxiv: 1212.2718 · arxiv_version: 1212.2718v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1212.2718 · pith_short_12: MONCRQDVT6QZ · pith_short_16: MONCRQDVT6QZH432 · pith_short_8: MONCRQDV

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/MONCRQDVT6QZH432USBW4BBEFZ \
  | 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: 639a28c0759fa193f37aa4836e04242e53f7616687fc25adb36dfd6ee2a5b013

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ec84862c8bf564402ebf4c4d4e811771b85f76242965c0945aa23d1cdfdb9c45",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2012-12-12T06:31:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "32487051dc7740a2e7121ca4433e1a2e708b3961e5386e34c47fc57d6ca0c298"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1212.2718",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}