Pith Number

pith:MTOVFXOW

pith:2017:MTOVFXOWSWPGVYTOXQHIQL3ULH

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Gravitational Focusing and the Star Cluster Initial Mass Function

Aleksandra Kuznetsova, Andreas Burkert, Lee Hartmann

arxiv:1702.00279 v1 · 2017-01-30 · astro-ph.GA · astro-ph.SR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MTOVFXOWSWPGVYTOXQHIQL3ULH}

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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	2026-05-18T00:49:09.334505Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

64dd52ddd6959e6ae26ebc0e882f7459de9493eebd344b9f090dd0d0b2a53612

Aliases

arxiv: 1702.00279 · arxiv_version: 1702.00279v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1702.00279 · pith_short_12: MTOVFXOWSWPG · pith_short_16: MTOVFXOWSWPGVYTO · pith_short_8: MTOVFXOW

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/MTOVFXOWSWPGVYTOXQHIQL3ULH \
  | 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: 64dd52ddd6959e6ae26ebc0e882f7459de9493eebd344b9f090dd0d0b2a53612

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7ce16bd726c089ecb9ddfcc037b622d341b00cdb5398316afdb602ce097ddeea",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.SR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2017-01-30T19:00:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ed15425138684241e45faf7c84fa96bb086755e3eff753e421744b93a7981b6b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1702.00279",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}