Pith Number

pith:RK4ORVCL

pith:2013:RK4ORVCLU35YBNEHSDM6MPMVWR

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Do jets precess... or even move at all?

Andrew King, Chris Nixon

arxiv:1301.5321 v1 · 2013-01-22 · astro-ph.HE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RK4ORVCLU35YBNEHSDM6MPMVWR}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T01:52:04.531710Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8ab8e8d44ba6fb80b48790d9e63d95b47a6c5a9c11d8079d0b9b19b47897e87f

Aliases

arxiv: 1301.5321 · arxiv_version: 1301.5321v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1301.5321 · pith_short_12: RK4ORVCLU35Y · pith_short_16: RK4ORVCLU35YBNEH · pith_short_8: RK4ORVCL

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/RK4ORVCLU35YBNEHSDM6MPMVWR \
  | 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: 8ab8e8d44ba6fb80b48790d9e63d95b47a6c5a9c11d8079d0b9b19b47897e87f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b2c4bd2bdb867519736d8d6f7e48b81c409bbd2939250154ab3a67d1fb4118c6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2013-01-22T21:00:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "dc61b6dfa2e9ab0416d7c5adf0bb47eeb39c9aa7dde3728f2e9bf3a7008f40ae"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1301.5321",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}