Pith Number

pith:R4RM2GZM

pith:1997:R4RM2GZMLFN2LQLVYKG7JUQY36

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Cumulants as non-Gaussian qualifiers

IAP, IoA), Joao Magueijo (IC-London), Joseph Silk (U.C.-Berkeley, Pedro G. Ferreira (CfPA-Berkeley)

arxiv:astro-ph/9704261 v2 · 1997-04-27 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{R4RM2GZMLFN2LQLVYKG7JUQY36}

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Record completeness

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T04:22:32.236656Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8f22cd1b2c595ba5c175c28df4d218df94ea6deac9368045fdccdf0f24feb4cb

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9704261 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9704261v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9704261 · pith_short_12: R4RM2GZMLFN2 · pith_short_16: R4RM2GZMLFN2LQLV · pith_short_8: R4RM2GZM

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/R4RM2GZMLFN2LQLVYKG7JUQY36 \
  | 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: 8f22cd1b2c595ba5c175c28df4d218df94ea6deac9368045fdccdf0f24feb4cb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "85142b3310327443c3395787ed93b81f0613028738298c3d2b08adfea3e840e5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1997-04-27T00:27:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "78260e11b3b6f767b6a78d59d4a66312d20941f4709f867810a4521de2b7daa2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9704261",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}