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pith:2015:Z5XQBAPRJO4ONXC4NSWAPA5WEK
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Introducing Decorated HODs: modeling assembly bias in the galaxy-halo connection

Andrew P. Hearin, Andrew R. Zentner, Duncan Campbell, Erik Tollerud, Frank C. van den Bosch

Source: arxiv:1512.03050 v1 · Submitted 2015-12-09 · License http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Categories: astro-ph.CO

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First computed 2026-05-18T01:14:01.807350Z
Builder pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature Pith Ed25519 (pith-v1-2026-05, fingerprint 8d4b5ee74e4693bc…) · public key
Signature value PjfTqWd9Ek2z/LNjmFzISDskg9ccl29btkujQR/8b0db3MIrAm7KV4qNCtAiip5183FOtIt2kNsm72bHfFORAw==
Schema pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cf6f0081f14bb8e6dc5c6cac0783b622a5c5b3a810e7d7524a064a7ba830f705

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arxiv 1512.03050
arxiv_version 1512.03050v1
doi 10.48550/arxiv.1512.03050

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Three shell lines recompute the canonical hash. If the hash you compute matches the one shown above, the record is intact end-to-end.

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/Z5XQBAPRJO4ONXC4NSWAPA5WEK \
  | 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: cf6f0081f14bb8e6dc5c6cac0783b622a5c5b3a810e7d7524a064a7ba830f705

Verify the Pith Ed25519 signature against the published public key:

curl -s https://pith.science/pith-signing-key.json | jq -r .public_key_b64 \
  | base64 -d > /tmp/pith_pub.bin
python3 -c "
from cryptography.hazmat.primitives.asymmetric.ed25519 import Ed25519PublicKey
import base64
pub = Ed25519PublicKey.from_public_bytes(open('/tmp/pith_pub.bin','rb').read())
sig = base64.b64decode('PjfTqWd9Ek2z/LNjmFzISDskg9ccl29btkujQR/8b0db3MIrAm7KV4qNCtAiip5183FOtIt2kNsm72bHfFORAw==')
digest = bytes.fromhex('cf6f0081f14bb8e6dc5c6cac0783b622a5c5b3a810e7d7524a064a7ba830f705')
pub.verify(sig, digest)
print('signature OK')"
Show canonical record JSON 
{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d553e39e7100057f212ed866ab92ad9edcc844cd0a185f84f6aafc4a57066083",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2015-12-09T21:00:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "dbf83636ed348c731c56af511f2a65197d84281806d7d5475d9a35904e1b5643"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1512.03050",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}