Pith Number

pith:USTG3EFV

pith:2019:USTG3EFVFVRU2FM4E5DZBLPFWR

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Cause of a Pulsar Glitch

Thando Nkomozake

arxiv:1901.09429 v1 · 2019-01-27 · astro-ph.HE

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{USTG3EFVFVRU2FM4E5DZBLPFWR}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

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	2026-05-17T23:55:24.789667Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a4a66d90b52d634d159c274790ade5b46e96dab144d1a89057820ae8ca78f636

Aliases

arxiv: 1901.09429 · arxiv_version: 1901.09429v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1901.09429 · pith_short_12: USTG3EFVFVRU · pith_short_16: USTG3EFVFVRU2FM4 · pith_short_8: USTG3EFV

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/USTG3EFVFVRU2FM4E5DZBLPFWR \
  | 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: a4a66d90b52d634d159c274790ade5b46e96dab144d1a89057820ae8ca78f636

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a92fc24fa2bc54c39c871a05e1e1f9fb99e6ec59b169cd6242da706adfa28bbc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2019-01-27T19:52:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "adeb127bd80421d4796d1d5c9ce302e5d507833776e2c2bed25ce24402ae0e7f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1901.09429",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}