Pith Number

pith:SZYLB5FS

pith:2010:SZYLB5FSKRRZI67UEIQYXOD4Q7

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Galaxy Formation Theory

Andrew J. Benson (1) ((1) California Institute of Technology)

arxiv:1006.5394 v2 · 2010-06-28 · astro-ph.CO · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SZYLB5FSKRRZI67UEIQYXOD4Q7}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T02:06:34.854788Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9670b0f4b25463947bf422218bb87c87f51eddea3af6e580d2e20eb7284e1b5b

Aliases

arxiv: 1006.5394 · arxiv_version: 1006.5394v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1006.5394 · pith_short_12: SZYLB5FSKRRZ · pith_short_16: SZYLB5FSKRRZI67U · pith_short_8: SZYLB5FS

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/SZYLB5FSKRRZI67UEIQYXOD4Q7 \
  | 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: 9670b0f4b25463947bf422218bb87c87f51eddea3af6e580d2e20eb7284e1b5b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "28112c7a9f27d562237d3ec89fb4f306dec05ee318cbd6182d2ff59db9057bb6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.GA"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2010-06-28T16:26:25Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "06b1c13e7b8e5fe9ad7e293b0c5feb969cf557611e7d52d9c562ac4bdef589df"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1006.5394",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}