Pith Number

pith:VU3O74YB

pith:2015:VU3O74YBEO6S4ZO4IRTR32WWKG

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CMB spectral distortions from the decay of causally generated magnetic fields

Jacques M. Wagstaff, Robi Banerjee

arxiv:1508.01683 v1 · 2015-08-07 · astro-ph.CO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VU3O74YBEO6S4ZO4IRTR32WWKG}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:23:55.859601Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ad36eff30123bd2e65dc44671dead651a8af820e424893d7f502c81435263c5f

Aliases

arxiv: 1508.01683 · arxiv_version: 1508.01683v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1508.01683 · pith_short_12: VU3O74YBEO6S · pith_short_16: VU3O74YBEO6S4ZO4 · pith_short_8: VU3O74YB

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VU3O74YBEO6S4ZO4IRTR32WWKG \
  | 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: ad36eff30123bd2e65dc44671dead651a8af820e424893d7f502c81435263c5f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ecbef0c0baff27e92056b44fad581ec44bd5884efbe36f0320316df6c727f62c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2015-08-07T13:24:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b62b7ec150e1650198e7c2a792b315c8496d5b4577a9d42870a84f9b671e9092"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1508.01683",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}