Pith Number

pith:X2QGV4OL

pith:2016:X2QGV4OLZRSR6SR2D3E5CWPIQD

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Major mergers are not significant drivers of star formation or morphological transformation around the epoch of peak cosmic star formation

A. Mortlock, C. J. Conselice, E. K. Lofthouse, S. Kaviraj, W. Hartley

arxiv:1608.03892 v2 · 2016-08-11 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{X2QGV4OLZRSR6SR2D3E5CWPIQD}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:52:15.140098Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bea06af1cbcc651f4a3a1ec9d159e880df2a039e377bca794361b2adb1f3cd6e

Aliases

arxiv: 1608.03892 · arxiv_version: 1608.03892v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1608.03892 · pith_short_12: X2QGV4OLZRSR · pith_short_16: X2QGV4OLZRSR6SR2 · pith_short_8: X2QGV4OL

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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/X2QGV4OLZRSR6SR2D3E5CWPIQD \
  | 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: bea06af1cbcc651f4a3a1ec9d159e880df2a039e377bca794361b2adb1f3cd6e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ba38b2a330cae5f9a0568944fa943cba8700f8dfbaa96dd0ca1228a5fbff0040",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2016-08-11T20:00:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f5192baf0e87a3d6f663b174ab8ec3d83cb4d7db97380baa6f0f5ac4c856c996"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1608.03892",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}