Pith Number

pith:YDZZEULY

pith:2026:YDZZEULYNGOKYZWKSOADBYZ5LF

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Life and Death of Stars That Capture Primordial Black Holes

Cameron Norton, Ken Van Tilburg, Matteo Cantiello, Matthew Kleban, Ore Gottlieb

arxiv:2606.02700 v1 · 2026-06-01 · astro-ph.HE · astro-ph.CO · astro-ph.SR · gr-qc

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YDZZEULYNGOKYZWKSOADBYZ5LF}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-06-03T00:05:07.313612Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c0f3925178699cac66ca938030e33d594f7b508273abfec06707cd2030dd4e3a

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.02700 · arxiv_version: 2606.02700v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.02700 · pith_short_12: YDZZEULYNGOK · pith_short_16: YDZZEULYNGOKYZWK · pith_short_8: YDZZEULY

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/YDZZEULYNGOKYZWKSOADBYZ5LF \
  | 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: c0f3925178699cac66ca938030e33d594f7b508273abfec06707cd2030dd4e3a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "617d9637729e64bd2a0fca103ca6d6dace84aec0dbf17213bc7c539ae5a07179",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.CO",
      "astro-ph.SR",
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-01T18:00:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6adc00c262625d86912a2c07fed2922f510eadf34619a24c7bec758672f4f978"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.02700",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}