Pith Number

pith:VOJ3FSK6

pith:2010:VOJ3FSK6TATJWBD4TLZM5X46DT

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Giant Rings in the CMB Sky

Assaf Ben-David, Ely D. Kovetz, Nissan Itzhaki

arxiv:1005.3923 v2 · 2010-05-21 · astro-ph.CO · gr-qc · hep-ph · hep-th

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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	2026-05-18T04:30:48.456617Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ab93b2c95e98269b047c9af2cedf9e1ccaf2f584f9e90ddefecfea5a588e3120

Aliases

arxiv: 1005.3923 · arxiv_version: 1005.3923v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1005.3923 · pith_short_12: VOJ3FSK6TATJ · pith_short_16: VOJ3FSK6TATJWBD4 · pith_short_8: VOJ3FSK6

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/VOJ3FSK6TATJWBD4TLZM5X46DT \
  | 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: ab93b2c95e98269b047c9af2cedf9e1ccaf2f584f9e90ddefecfea5a588e3120

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "68e0e64300363d53598052e2f44c76a6b57b9139896335af3b5fa782194f5e49",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc",
      "hep-ph",
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2010-05-21T10:08:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "189c652208a59407c73e618b1ae75fe58125538ce8baa62e0317b49e759dd4b2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1005.3923",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}