Pith Number

pith:42LKMTJO

pith:2014:42LKMTJOEFBTSFNRZJXQMQEGTY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Depinning of stiff directed lines in random media

Horst-Holger Boltz, Jan Kierfeld

arxiv:1406.4270 v1 · 2014-06-17 · cond-mat.stat-mech

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{42LKMTJOEFBTSFNRZJXQMQEGTY}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T02:16:21.060024Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e696a64d2e21433915b1ca6f0640869e32ababa1cef5806fb31b410bc08a2f9f

Aliases

arxiv: 1406.4270 · arxiv_version: 1406.4270v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1406.4270 · pith_short_12: 42LKMTJOEFBT · pith_short_16: 42LKMTJOEFBTSFNR · pith_short_8: 42LKMTJO

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/42LKMTJOEFBTSFNRZJXQMQEGTY \
  | 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: e696a64d2e21433915b1ca6f0640869e32ababa1cef5806fb31b410bc08a2f9f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b1dae76cbe20372737195c4110feccf049a19cb317042a60858cd5ba1d1d9ed9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cond-mat.stat-mech",
    "submitted_at": "2014-06-17T08:24:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2651ad282c8844b3189edbdb259b2722fe132d8fd232f3d965d539e7dfab26b5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1406.4270",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}