Pith Number

pith:ROTQEQTF

pith:2012:ROTQEQTFSQYPOFQDUPNQEOUQGA

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Cosmic Rays and Terrestrial Life: A Brief Review

Adrian L. Melott (Univ. of Kansas), Dimitra Atri (Tata Institute)

arxiv:1211.3962 v3 · 2012-11-16 · astro-ph.HE · physics.ao-ph · q-bio.PE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ROTQEQTFSQYPOFQDUPNQEOUQGA}

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Record completeness

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3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T02:57:06.874508Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8ba70242659430f71603a3db023a903014f9f5a411e601e62d8a8aff1c9c5f16

Aliases

arxiv: 1211.3962 · arxiv_version: 1211.3962v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1211.3962 · pith_short_12: ROTQEQTFSQYP · pith_short_16: ROTQEQTFSQYPOFQD · pith_short_8: ROTQEQTF

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/ROTQEQTFSQYPOFQDUPNQEOUQGA \
  | 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: 8ba70242659430f71603a3db023a903014f9f5a411e601e62d8a8aff1c9c5f16

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "624f76a80c96880e9c51959f423f1acd1c99fb751d9c6a783b23cab64bfe9ded",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.ao-ph",
      "q-bio.PE"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2012-11-16T17:37:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "653b427a549f260f7b42d69b60269ff4aa4e8db220838a4252e9573b9032b677"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1211.3962",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}