Pith Number

pith:ORXF4VDZ

pith:1997:ORXF4VDZ6SLYNCG3O5B7XW5R6J

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Extending the scope of models for large-scale structure formation in the Universe

Alvaro Dominguez, Juan Perez-Mercader, Thomas Buchert

arxiv:astro-ph/9709218 v2 · 1997-09-23 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ORXF4VDZ6SLYNCG3O5B7XW5R6J}

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4 Citations 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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T04:21:40.350344Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

746e5e5479f4978688db7743fbdbb1f241a5bbd2e47f146e25826eaf2e3391ae

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9709218 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9709218v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9709218 · pith_short_12: ORXF4VDZ6SLY · pith_short_16: ORXF4VDZ6SLYNCG3 · pith_short_8: ORXF4VDZ

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/ORXF4VDZ6SLYNCG3O5B7XW5R6J \
  | 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: 746e5e5479f4978688db7743fbdbb1f241a5bbd2e47f146e25826eaf2e3391ae

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "45036879f6e080fda988f35133f1671ead25b2f8d841ee1d43d8c925dfc3b271",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1997-09-23T09:26:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2a3c32cc6d9bd51e898320a994801cc9d86556505d93ff2b11378ee154a468f4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9709218",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}