Pith Number

pith:AM2B6MID

pith:2016:AM2B6MIDGHKWB4NI36FGMHFYUG

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

An information theory based search for homogeneity on the largest accessible scale

Biswajit Pandey, Suman Sarkar

arxiv:1607.06194 v2 · 2016-07-21 · astro-ph.CO

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{AM2B6MIDGHKWB4NI36FGMHFYUG}

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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	2026-05-18T00:54:20.031960Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

03341f310331d560f1a8df8a661cb8a1a26414443d8c4f1f69affc24936fb109

Aliases

arxiv: 1607.06194 · arxiv_version: 1607.06194v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1607.06194 · pith_short_12: AM2B6MIDGHKW · pith_short_16: AM2B6MIDGHKWB4NI · pith_short_8: AM2B6MID

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/AM2B6MIDGHKWB4NI36FGMHFYUG \
  | 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: 03341f310331d560f1a8df8a661cb8a1a26414443d8c4f1f69affc24936fb109

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "eda480c167a3194f923ea287691476b49c24eddaf4cb1035cfa1bce8ed916748",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2016-07-21T05:01:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "52a1fe59b4775bae599bf783faf0c13d88b715e483166aa4009bb14e44444ecf"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1607.06194",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}