Pith Number

pith:VCZJ5WLI

pith:2017:VCZJ5WLINSVOH2ZF5DYGQZLDVL

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Super-luminous Type II supernovae powered by magnetars

Edouard Audit, Luc Dessart

arxiv:1712.04492 v2 · 2017-12-12 · astro-ph.HE · astro-ph.SR

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VCZJ5WLINSVOH2ZF5DYGQZLDVL}

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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	2026-05-18T00:15:19.355793Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a8b29ed9686caae3eb25e8f0686563aac7e90dde562e823eb102bf3d7b7919ae

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.04492 · arxiv_version: 1712.04492v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.04492 · pith_short_12: VCZJ5WLINSVO · pith_short_16: VCZJ5WLINSVOH2ZF · pith_short_8: VCZJ5WLI

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/VCZJ5WLINSVOH2ZF5DYGQZLDVL \
  | 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: a8b29ed9686caae3eb25e8f0686563aac7e90dde562e823eb102bf3d7b7919ae

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8ff798f2c2e360e74763ff993e704389059a78c6e2a232d1f7f2f988929d3595",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.SR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-12T20:12:44Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d259e89f6a53316ce58ce0a8b4fa639d938f6d444618562a2e8d16d674dd9a0b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.04492",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}