Pith Number

pith:S5I6L2VE

pith:2017:S5I6L2VETDQOHDILUPJLJKUEHG

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Venus: Key to understanding the evolution of terrestrial planets

Colin Wilson

arxiv:1703.10961 v1 · 2017-03-31 · astro-ph.IM

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{S5I6L2VETDQOHDILUPJLJKUEHG}

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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	2026-05-18T00:47:32.196780Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9751e5eaa498e0e38d0ba3d2b4aa843990422fe98333652de92e5970aae8c73c

Aliases

arxiv: 1703.10961 · arxiv_version: 1703.10961v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1703.10961 · pith_short_12: S5I6L2VETDQO · pith_short_16: S5I6L2VETDQOHDIL · pith_short_8: S5I6L2VE

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/S5I6L2VETDQOHDILUPJLJKUEHG \
  | 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: 9751e5eaa498e0e38d0ba3d2b4aa843990422fe98333652de92e5970aae8c73c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b6f4148456c83659cb74084edf94dc65000d20028919a8649abc94b1391cffdd",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.IM",
    "submitted_at": "2017-03-31T15:55:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "55ddcc99b2db83cd98f9d2dc8b49855b38222a29eeee3193bc350ad7e913cea5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1703.10961",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}