Pith Number

pith:QA6V4TLC

pith:2013:QA6V4TLCCIVZJKLAGS3CTGC3N4

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Crucial aspects of the initial mass function (I): The statistical correlation between the total mass of an ensemble of stars and its most massive star

2), (2) IAC, (3) IA-Ensenada UNAM, 4), (4) Univ. La Laguna, (5) ESO, 6), (6) MPA Heifelberg, (7) Facl. Matematicas-UCM), Amelia Bayo (5, Carlos Romann-Zuniga (3), Enrique Perez (1) ((1) IAA-CSIC, Miguel Cervino (1, Nestor Sanchez (7), Valentina Luridiana (2

arxiv:1303.7237 v1 · 2013-03-28 · astro-ph.CO · astro-ph.GA

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\pithnumber{QA6V4TLCCIVZJKLAGS3CTGC3N4}

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First computed	2026-05-18T03:19:34.810556Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

803d5e4d62122b94a96034b629985b6f16338172be746a30d442f9a3900caa79

Aliases

arxiv: 1303.7237 · arxiv_version: 1303.7237v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1303.7237 · pith_short_12: QA6V4TLCCIVZ · pith_short_16: QA6V4TLCCIVZJKLA · pith_short_8: QA6V4TLC

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/QA6V4TLCCIVZJKLAGS3CTGC3N4 \
  | 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: 803d5e4d62122b94a96034b629985b6f16338172be746a30d442f9a3900caa79

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "52be1a6c839f16d12d5078f2dc4677b930aa158ed5a2f7bd3c149fac9ddb5a72",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.GA"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2013-03-28T20:00:08Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "489a725d125225e1454f8a6c8f28c66c053902044ddcf80707b5e9bafdee9e89"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1303.7237",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}