Pith Number

pith:YWAMTEHI

pith:2012:YWAMTEHIXMC2KIODDBNJ7FXRM2

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Why are so many primitive stars observed in the Galaxy halo?

Carl H. Gibson (Univ. Cal. San Diego), Rudolph E. Schild (Harvard Univ.), Theo M. Nieuwenhuizen (Amsterdam University)

arxiv:1206.0187 v1 · 2012-06-01 · physics.gen-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YWAMTEHIXMC2KIODDBNJ7FXRM2}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T03:54:26.866584Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c580c990e8bb05a521c3185a9f96f166bc180cca5d933400a5d9b1d401afefee

Aliases

arxiv: 1206.0187 · arxiv_version: 1206.0187v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1206.0187 · pith_short_12: YWAMTEHIXMC2 · pith_short_16: YWAMTEHIXMC2KIOD · pith_short_8: YWAMTEHI

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/YWAMTEHIXMC2KIODDBNJ7FXRM2 \
  | 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: c580c990e8bb05a521c3185a9f96f166bc180cca5d933400a5d9b1d401afefee

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4368d70d73e3dabe76c24eb91111f0f0d8bd2fd553ece7e589c4c509807123ca",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.gen-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-06-01T13:58:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "512586b99667ee23de12c616e3b36deb1992aea88dd3af6b991f3829de892d02"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1206.0187",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}