Pith Number

pith:IY4LPUKQ

pith:2010:IY4LPUKQXYBNYTZVWL2ACCFTCE

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Mass Functions in Fractal Clouds: The Role of Cloud Structure in the Stellar Initial Mass Function

Bruce G. Elmegreen, Mohsen Shadmehri

arxiv:1008.1218 v1 · 2010-08-06 · astro-ph.GA · astro-ph.CO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IY4LPUKQXYBNYTZVWL2ACCFTCE}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T02:05:58.324275Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4638b7d150be02dc4f35b2f40108b311236f0aa260abfe5d2d77b95428d9562c

Aliases

arxiv: 1008.1218 · arxiv_version: 1008.1218v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1008.1218 · pith_short_12: IY4LPUKQXYBN · pith_short_16: IY4LPUKQXYBNYTZV · pith_short_8: IY4LPUKQ

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/IY4LPUKQXYBNYTZVWL2ACCFTCE \
  | 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: 4638b7d150be02dc4f35b2f40108b311236f0aa260abfe5d2d77b95428d9562c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d14f56199144803bab3a67c670b93c44579e48c735072102b5905cd56959311c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.CO"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2010-08-06T15:16:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7cd9205fbe7aa01d0dd0fcd00cedfa88f06ab4a8e9e258b27a6405e9308512fd"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1008.1218",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}