Pith Number

pith:24E3DAGH

pith:2010:24E3DAGHF6HFFG7TKQWJ6FSHYF

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Why do Particle Clouds Generate Electric Charges?

Hans J. Herrmann, Thomas P\"ahtz, Troy Shinbrot

arxiv:1003.5188 v3 · 2010-03-26 · cond-mat.soft

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{24E3DAGHF6HFFG7TKQWJ6FSHYF}

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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	2026-05-18T01:34:59.621371Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d709b180c72f8e529bf3542c9f1647c16c342b394faafc27f1d5b4b7f6859781

Aliases

arxiv: 1003.5188 · arxiv_version: 1003.5188v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1003.5188 · pith_short_12: 24E3DAGHF6HF · pith_short_16: 24E3DAGHF6HFFG7T · pith_short_8: 24E3DAGH

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/24E3DAGHF6HFFG7TKQWJ6FSHYF \
  | 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: d709b180c72f8e529bf3542c9f1647c16c342b394faafc27f1d5b4b7f6859781

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "71f7e2325fa1c92ee1705058e8db38b672ffce5c93acedde49682b9f9f1e6f19",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cond-mat.soft",
    "submitted_at": "2010-03-26T17:04:25Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cd33abfe3ff093bc33582bad7e8c156b8830f43eb70104e2c09cbe0e582c12f1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1003.5188",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}