Pith Number

pith:2VXAFNEX

pith:2012:2VXAFNEX44PHUTEDB2NUL2HGMK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Tendency of spherically imploding plasma liners formed by merging plasma jets to evolve toward spherical symmetry

F. D. Witherspoon, J. T. Cassibry, M. Stanic, S. C. Hsu, S. I. Abarzhi

arxiv:1201.1879 v1 · 2012-01-09 · physics.plasm-ph

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\pithnumber{2VXAFNEX44PHUTEDB2NUL2HGMK}

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:58:53.864893Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d56e02b497e71e7a4c830e9b45e8e6628af49af316249627157c458147c941ab

Aliases

arxiv: 1201.1879 · arxiv_version: 1201.1879v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1201.1879 · pith_short_12: 2VXAFNEX44PH · pith_short_16: 2VXAFNEX44PHUTED · pith_short_8: 2VXAFNEX

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/2VXAFNEX44PHUTEDB2NUL2HGMK \
  | 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: d56e02b497e71e7a4c830e9b45e8e6628af49af316249627157c458147c941ab

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7dfab5abd4846eb9830c113937bcaa49fb26af08a924063be6eaaea4aa8788ee",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.plasm-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-01-09T19:29:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1716577255317a4b7d38c9f470b106eeb77412a49013e3ffd6e36484be98cbbd"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1201.1879",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}