Pith Number

pith:RAIGF6TU

pith:1997:RAIGF6TU2XVSHTZBILNOU3TKTD

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Ribbons on the CBR Sky: A Powerful Test of a Baryon Symmetric Universe

Edward W. Kolb, Michael S. Turner, William H. Kinney

arxiv:astro-ph/9704070 v2 · 1997-04-09 · astro-ph · hep-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RAIGF6TU2XVSHTZBILNOU3TKTD}

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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	2026-05-18T01:08:08.150868Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

881062fa74d5eb23cf2142daea6e6a98f56cc3c191fa8c9ac9eb0bf3b5901681

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9704070 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9704070v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9704070 · pith_short_12: RAIGF6TU2XVS · pith_short_16: RAIGF6TU2XVSHTZB · pith_short_8: RAIGF6TU

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/RAIGF6TU2XVSHTZBILNOU3TKTD \
  | 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: 881062fa74d5eb23cf2142daea6e6a98f56cc3c191fa8c9ac9eb0bf3b5901681

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "17a6da5040ba6f953308767e31c3555e9f2e5abd9b8f0e14c37874124f2adb4c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-ph"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1997-04-09T15:38:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "74d8075089c2bfe65138e45a8d782cf546b4d8f59e3fe6e9285fbd50474e9038"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9704070",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}