Pith Number

pith:STFTIF7T

pith:2017:STFTIF7TLS7HZPNJD3OETE4OPV

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The low level of correlation observed in the CMB sky at large angular scales and the low quadrupole variance

Lloyd Knox, Robert Knight

arxiv:1705.01178 v1 · 2017-05-02 · astro-ph.CO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{STFTIF7TLS7HZPNJD3OETE4OPV}

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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	2026-05-18T00:45:05.749916Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

94cb3417f35cbe7cbda91edc49938e7d7c6d8adbc65325cf320cbb4904eaf539

Aliases

arxiv: 1705.01178 · arxiv_version: 1705.01178v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1705.01178 · pith_short_12: STFTIF7TLS7H · pith_short_16: STFTIF7TLS7HZPNJ · pith_short_8: STFTIF7T

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/STFTIF7TLS7HZPNJD3OETE4OPV \
  | 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: 94cb3417f35cbe7cbda91edc49938e7d7c6d8adbc65325cf320cbb4904eaf539

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9e229042debb29f460b928f16beeee346384addcc79249edf0684255c02e641a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2017-05-02T21:37:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "12e69aca4e34e2cb759751fe81cb9ab9493c5515c11615ac57069f7c018b335a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1705.01178",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}