Pith Number

pith:YHS6X7GO

pith:2014:YHS6X7GO3JPBENKCZ35UMC4D4S

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N.C. Rana: The Life of a `Comet' in the Astrophysical World

Saibal Ray, Utpal Mukhopadhyay

arxiv:1401.2141 v1 · 2014-01-08 · physics.hist-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YHS6X7GO3JPBENKCZ35UMC4D4S}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T03:02:47.363733Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c1e5ebfcceda5e123542cefb460b83e4a0b3cb3b05ccf758fb4afaca50c97373

Aliases

arxiv: 1401.2141 · arxiv_version: 1401.2141v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1401.2141 · pith_short_12: YHS6X7GO3JPB · pith_short_16: YHS6X7GO3JPBENKC · pith_short_8: YHS6X7GO

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/YHS6X7GO3JPBENKCZ35UMC4D4S \
  | 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: c1e5ebfcceda5e123542cefb460b83e4a0b3cb3b05ccf758fb4afaca50c97373

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b41775b7c3b1016d2b2c0eeff0e3b68ec30699933e2352e93e3224243a4fc547",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.hist-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2014-01-08T19:25:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d69396be275622451fd7f945376e0ce4328bb39ec4d3252d20020e7ca5ad40bc"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1401.2141",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}