Pith Number

pith:SB46Q3XI

pith:2009:SB46Q3XIRYOKGBJTKRYBSAUQTZ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Estimators for the exponent and upper limit, and goodness-of-fit tests for (truncated) power-law distributions

Bonn), Pavel Kroupa (Bonn), Thomas Maschberger (Cambridge

arxiv:0905.0474 v1 · 2009-05-04 · astro-ph.IM · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SB46Q3XIRYOKGBJTKRYBSAUQTZ}

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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	2026-05-18T02:13:47.744469Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9079e86ee88e1ca3053354701902909e4d86c4ad96993a2cc741f715cdab6816

Aliases

arxiv: 0905.0474 · arxiv_version: 0905.0474v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0905.0474 · pith_short_12: SB46Q3XIRYOK · pith_short_16: SB46Q3XIRYOKGBJT · pith_short_8: SB46Q3XI

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/SB46Q3XIRYOKGBJTKRYBSAUQTZ \
  | 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: 9079e86ee88e1ca3053354701902909e4d86c4ad96993a2cc741f715cdab6816

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "bcc1b38eb0b38c1b4571d04fae3ed48d400a469149ef2d24676886ee61a16446",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.GA"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.IM",
    "submitted_at": "2009-05-04T20:00:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "11e606f5dd41143dd343e99b0dda0007a165c30cae20090b35a582a7d9ce22ea"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0905.0474",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}