Pith Number

pith:YA6X2R6J

pith:2012:YA6X2R6JKCML5AASYMGMYBG5T7

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The stretching of Hercules

A. J. Deason (Cambridge), L. L. Watkins (MPIA), M. Fellhauer (Chile), N. W. Evans (Cambridge), V. Belokurov (Cambridge)

arxiv:1207.3802 v1 · 2012-07-16 · astro-ph.GA

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YA6X2R6JKCML5AASYMGMYBG5T7}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T01:56:17.787979Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c03d7d47c95098be8012c30ccc04dd9fd85f79003eaa96adbac6c1ee8f8adcdf

Aliases

arxiv: 1207.3802 · arxiv_version: 1207.3802v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1207.3802 · pith_short_12: YA6X2R6JKCML · pith_short_16: YA6X2R6JKCML5AAS · pith_short_8: YA6X2R6J

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/YA6X2R6JKCML5AASYMGMYBG5T7 \
  | 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: c03d7d47c95098be8012c30ccc04dd9fd85f79003eaa96adbac6c1ee8f8adcdf

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "18d09dc09e71e0db4cc97333822cd4c35a1e38e9c1ac7785f80abd3f3398214a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2012-07-16T20:00:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "57b1d5b9545516996e7a09bacaa07882c3dbfc62265df2ddf097d3a9be7c4d6c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1207.3802",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}