Pith Number

pith:X4KLLGVH

pith:2016:X4KLLGVHK4Y3D7BH7GHF35PIS5

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Testing galaxy formation models with galaxy stellar mass functions

Brice M\'enard, Houjun Mo, Seunghwan Lim, Ting-Wen Lan

arxiv:1608.05086 v2 · 2016-08-17 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{X4KLLGVHK4Y3D7BH7GHF35PIS5}

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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	2026-05-18T01:02:37.154628Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bf14b59aa75731b1fc27f98e5df5e89752cb8c8c1616074594ede4e15f9bc18d

Aliases

arxiv: 1608.05086 · arxiv_version: 1608.05086v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1608.05086 · pith_short_12: X4KLLGVHK4Y3 · pith_short_16: X4KLLGVHK4Y3D7BH · pith_short_8: X4KLLGVH

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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/X4KLLGVHK4Y3D7BH7GHF35PIS5 \
  | 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: bf14b59aa75731b1fc27f98e5df5e89752cb8c8c1616074594ede4e15f9bc18d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "31d8db9352b990f7f087f37ff36a006dace530da2c0b4b6d8847244776117a7d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2016-08-17T20:01:10Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cfa98c7d8c0b58108ee7259b43c8c0114f44100505fe3544d816e8ddfb967666"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1608.05086",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}