Pith Number

pith:W262ZUBK

pith:2010:W262ZUBKOO7JQYJLIPD3A375TC

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Taking "The Road Not Taken'': On the Benefits of Diversifying Your Academic Portfolio

Abraham Loeb (Harvard)

arxiv:1008.1586 v1 · 2010-08-09 · astro-ph.IM

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{W262ZUBKOO7JQYJLIPD3A375TC}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T04:42:23.746573Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b6bdacd02a73be98612b43c7b06ffd989229dbd725d588fd42cf1c413959cd82

Aliases

arxiv: 1008.1586 · arxiv_version: 1008.1586v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1008.1586 · pith_short_12: W262ZUBKOO7J · pith_short_16: W262ZUBKOO7JQYJL · pith_short_8: W262ZUBK

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/W262ZUBKOO7JQYJLIPD3A375TC \
  | 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: b6bdacd02a73be98612b43c7b06ffd989229dbd725d588fd42cf1c413959cd82

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d9c5f72cd221511fa30bd561019fa3dc897a5116fb63fa691fdd39d39ac680d2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.IM",
    "submitted_at": "2010-08-09T20:05:17Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bd1aaede26a61176958ea8cf0a191a56c6a5fb6a2d0ad6e0ac75f1304d54c137"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1008.1586",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}