Pith Number

pith:USUWO3AG

pith:2019:USUWO3AGOB62FGZN7LCKKEYQTL

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A better consensus: Changes to the Decadal process itself

David Schiminovich (Columbia), David W Hogg (NYU, Flatiron)

arxiv:1907.04867 v1 · 2019-07-10 · astro-ph.IM

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{USUWO3AGOB62FGZN7LCKKEYQTL}

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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	2026-05-17T23:40:54.757868Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a4a9676c06707da29b2dfac4a513109aeac1b2ae957616d0f38e0a0c48b884f1

Aliases

arxiv: 1907.04867 · arxiv_version: 1907.04867v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1907.04867 · pith_short_12: USUWO3AGOB62 · pith_short_16: USUWO3AGOB62FGZN · pith_short_8: USUWO3AG

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/USUWO3AGOB62FGZN7LCKKEYQTL \
  | 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: a4a9676c06707da29b2dfac4a513109aeac1b2ae957616d0f38e0a0c48b884f1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "adfdab6d5a6564e484bf95ff3a095886147c832ebc12c9b26534ee181fa3dd78",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.IM",
    "submitted_at": "2019-07-10T18:00:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "875028bdd82ae795a464708ff2a5b8a25f118e58604cdf1964bce504c3966db1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1907.04867",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}