Pith Number

pith:XUYX642Z

pith:2010:XUYX642ZUYF7ZPMSSKEW6UUPJW

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Galaxy Formation Spanning Cosmic History

(2)University of Durham), Andrew J. Benson (1), Richard G. Bower (2) ((1)California Institute of Technology

arxiv:1003.0011 v1 · 2010-02-26 · astro-ph.CO

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XUYX642ZUYF7ZPMSSKEW6UUPJW}

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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	2026-05-18T02:08:48.779990Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bd317f7359a60bfcbd9292896f528f4db7ce9b7472e3020822f61facf1bba64e

Aliases

arxiv: 1003.0011 · arxiv_version: 1003.0011v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1003.0011 · pith_short_12: XUYX642ZUYF7 · pith_short_16: XUYX642ZUYF7ZPMS · pith_short_8: XUYX642Z

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/XUYX642ZUYF7ZPMSSKEW6UUPJW \
  | 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: bd317f7359a60bfcbd9292896f528f4db7ce9b7472e3020822f61facf1bba64e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "025d94ace9825c3592f3b5655d71a0f8496dd6341a7bd9f96c69712410d6f04c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2010-02-26T21:12:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "af9ff22e37edc1fba8d04e90819a694c55fc0849fa04aab057ce49d89a9ba2cd"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1003.0011",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}