Pith Number

pith:NT5O26L7

pith:2015:NT5O26L7ZSLU6MHTONAMUKOCQH

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Evolution of Galaxy Shapes from Prolate to Oblate through Compaction Events

Avishai Dekel, Daniel Ceverino, Joel Primack, Matteo Tomassetti, Nir Mandelker, Omer Kneller, Sandra Faber, Sharon Lapiner, Tanmayi Sai

arxiv:1512.06268 v2 · 2015-12-19 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NT5O26L7ZSLU6MHTONAMUKOCQH}

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5 Replications open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T01:17:30.312832Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6cfaed797fcc974f30f37340ca29c281c488b87149cf91cf1a45f9ebd18349d3

Aliases

arxiv: 1512.06268 · arxiv_version: 1512.06268v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1512.06268 · pith_short_12: NT5O26L7ZSLU · pith_short_16: NT5O26L7ZSLU6MHT · pith_short_8: NT5O26L7

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/NT5O26L7ZSLU6MHTONAMUKOCQH \
  | 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: 6cfaed797fcc974f30f37340ca29c281c488b87149cf91cf1a45f9ebd18349d3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9837d6c6fa2d85d98b2aed0ed509a311c29c8587e6c3b60b0cbcd07e288fde10",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2015-12-19T16:16:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "31091ab017e4224060d82762b084dc1ab20a723ead5e7c6396381993cccea544"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1512.06268",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}