Pith Number

pith:4E4VMGHW

pith:1994:4E4VMGHWELFEM4U4VHKOCFJSXQ

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First-Principles Determination of Chain-Structure Instability in KNbO$_3$

Henry Krakauer (College of William, Mary), Rici Yu

arxiv:mtrl-th/9412008 v1 · 1994-12-21 · mtrl-th · cond-mat.mtrl-sci

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:05:22.432174Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e1395618f622ca46729ca9d4e11532bc06df81696e2e080cc0b89b72b9a04b84

Aliases

arxiv: mtrl-th/9412008 · arxiv_version: mtrl-th/9412008v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.mtrl-th/9412008 · pith_short_12: 4E4VMGHWELFE · pith_short_16: 4E4VMGHWELFEM4U4 · pith_short_8: 4E4VMGHW

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/4E4VMGHWELFEM4U4VHKOCFJSXQ \
  | 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: e1395618f622ca46729ca9d4e11532bc06df81696e2e080cc0b89b72b9a04b84

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8f85db22841db150a15718bd060ab77ad61c8dc759fe3759ade82418e04aae7c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cond-mat.mtrl-sci"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "mtrl-th",
    "submitted_at": "1994-12-21T16:25:10Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e04578cf810bc9a1fff3d207ec80762b861ddce834d7ae672162682637e0488c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "mtrl-th/9412008",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}