Pith Number

pith:YFJCF4PE

pith:2012:YFJCF4PEVLV3MQMY7X6KGG2POO

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Anomalous Low States and Long Term Variability in the Black Hole Binary LMC X-3

Alan P. Smale, Patricia T. Boyd

arxiv:1207.3775 v1 · 2012-07-16 · astro-ph.HE

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YFJCF4PEVLV3MQMY7X6KGG2POO}

Prints a linked badge after your title and injects PDF metadata. Compiles on arXiv. Learn more · Embed verified badge

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	2026-05-18T01:56:17.878284Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c15222f1e4aaebb64198fdfca31b4f73aeff2c836f6853e749928f38aa9f8ee1

Aliases

arxiv: 1207.3775 · arxiv_version: 1207.3775v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1207.3775 · pith_short_12: YFJCF4PEVLV3 · pith_short_16: YFJCF4PEVLV3MQMY · pith_short_8: YFJCF4PE

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/YFJCF4PEVLV3MQMY7X6KGG2POO \
  | 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: c15222f1e4aaebb64198fdfca31b4f73aeff2c836f6853e749928f38aa9f8ee1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1aa647cdbf8ffd3022594760d70a4fd40db926b09faa3d2ceadc37873ac070aa",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2012-07-16T19:29:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0c538a458948d79a4726546e5723e09a3a67afd3c3a0ead034f74ccd46859a61"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1207.3775",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}