Pith Number

pith:ZHHRAFF3

pith:1996:ZHHRAFF3ENXWAWA3QYLVLQVMY3

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Polarization of the Microwave Background in Reionized Models

Matias Zaldarriaga

arxiv:astro-ph/9608050 v2 · 1996-08-09 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZHHRAFF3ENXWAWA3QYLVLQVMY3}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:07:40.931622Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c9cf1014bb236f60581b861755c2acc6ec739f3ed4b375340db7a550157d4418

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9608050 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9608050v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9608050 · pith_short_12: ZHHRAFF3ENXW · pith_short_16: ZHHRAFF3ENXWAWA3 · pith_short_8: ZHHRAFF3

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/ZHHRAFF3ENXWAWA3QYLVLQVMY3 \
  | 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: c9cf1014bb236f60581b861755c2acc6ec739f3ed4b375340db7a550157d4418

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "96d35c4cf60a399e35214852d0910fc7823eecc96bd669269ceb36d22082283a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1996-08-09T22:26:26Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "26c2d55565c087e3b3ec3871cb27de6108e991898f16ca99ebacf71ad0dcd626"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9608050",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}