Pith Number

pith:RVBADRFJ

pith:2019:RVBADRFJ572RGAKI2OL4COKALA

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Resolving numerical star formation: A cautionary tale

James Wurster, Matthew R. Bate

arxiv:1906.12276 v1 · 2019-06-28 · astro-ph.SR · astro-ph.IM

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RVBADRFJ572RGAKI2OL4COKALA}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:41:58.793891Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8d4201c4a9eff5130148d397c1394058191f59304f4cca7afd82ab0ee4e5947b

Aliases

arxiv: 1906.12276 · arxiv_version: 1906.12276v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1906.12276 · pith_short_12: RVBADRFJ572R · pith_short_16: RVBADRFJ572RGAKI · pith_short_8: RVBADRFJ

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/RVBADRFJ572RGAKI2OL4COKALA \
  | 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: 8d4201c4a9eff5130148d397c1394058191f59304f4cca7afd82ab0ee4e5947b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "eadd10c47782320429fd2380a53c12cf1550e37794a6ed6ee45cffbe81bd2823",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.IM"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2019-06-28T15:55:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "90145878bdd0944bce1ac962d88b3d6a1e29a0377f9c9cb342a784d90af13e70"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1906.12276",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}