Pith Number

pith:YXX2UPKK

pith:2017:YXX2UPKKTIZCTNYN64MPICNOWB

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Statistical Topology and the Random Interstellar Medium

Andrew Fletcher, Anvar Shukurov, Irina Makarenko, Paul Bushby, Robin Henderson

arxiv:1703.07256 v1 · 2017-03-21 · stat.AP · astro-ph.GA

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YXX2UPKKTIZCTNYN64MPICNOWB}

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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	2026-05-18T00:48:10.849847Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c5efaa3d4a9a3229b70df718f409aeb060b26467f69a950e99f4f710679a8ee3

Aliases

arxiv: 1703.07256 · arxiv_version: 1703.07256v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1703.07256 · pith_short_12: YXX2UPKKTIZC · pith_short_16: YXX2UPKKTIZCTNYN · pith_short_8: YXX2UPKK

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/YXX2UPKKTIZCTNYN64MPICNOWB \
  | 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: c5efaa3d4a9a3229b70df718f409aeb060b26467f69a950e99f4f710679a8ee3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "686c4c9658c8033a6f34f6013cf36fcd097e75bf2b8da0f93f681910ca6d204e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.GA"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.AP",
    "submitted_at": "2017-03-21T15:02:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "eb0cd0cdee777ff077da3f46e98399d00e3173e52504de7060efd345a6245e1e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1703.07256",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}