Pith Number

pith:WPVTYSVO

pith:2003:WPVTYSVOOANTF4PHJ76H7J67UT

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What do astrophysics and the world's oldest profession have in common?

Martin Lopez-Corredoira

arxiv:astro-ph/0310368 v4 · 2003-10-14 · astro-ph · physics.soc-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WPVTYSVOOANTF4PHJ76H7J67UT}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T03:46:15.509072Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b3eb3c4aae701b32f1e74ffc7fa7dfa4fd4ef481353f6178c2b34aa066fd6c2b

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0310368 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0310368v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0310368 · pith_short_12: WPVTYSVOOANT · pith_short_16: WPVTYSVOOANTF4PH · pith_short_8: WPVTYSVO

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/WPVTYSVOOANTF4PHJ76H7J67UT \
  | 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: b3eb3c4aae701b32f1e74ffc7fa7dfa4fd4ef481353f6178c2b34aa066fd6c2b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8232029a65af0dbeb6f4e956536c2a17a8c57827a9d0435e1903af79b9bc9071",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2003-10-14T15:31:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d434b82fca022e827b00939f7b2544d5d2aecaa3fffce95607ecfc3d1d833d7e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0310368",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}