Pith Number

pith:NK567DYD

pith:2003:NK567DYDRQEWJXYFT2SUNC2NEN

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

electron-positron-photon plasma around a collapsing star

L. Vitagliano, R. Ruffini, S.-S. Xue

arxiv:astro-ph/0304306 v1 · 2003-04-16 · astro-ph · gr-qc · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NK567DYDRQEWJXYFT2SUNC2NEN}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T00:37:17.606898Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6abbef8f038c0964df059ea5468b4d235a649155c6fbe6caf032866350d5b9da

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0304306 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0304306v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0304306 · pith_short_12: NK567DYDRQEW · pith_short_16: NK567DYDRQEWJXYF · pith_short_8: NK567DYD

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/NK567DYDRQEWJXYFT2SUNC2NEN \
  | 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: 6abbef8f038c0964df059ea5468b4d235a649155c6fbe6caf032866350d5b9da

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0d7b30a61324854380ed0c86bad7a3eb461816ed2ce9ca7718247a65482e5d11",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc",
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2003-04-16T15:17:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "73bdf7a04f688c726ff80de80c909b05adb7fb7e0fd345eff6e8d96d93325364"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0304306",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}