Pith Number

pith:4FTXW7OL

pith:2017:4FTXW7OLUKS46AVYUHUPRFCLJ3

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Pair creation, motion, and annihilation of topological defects in 2D nematics

Dario Cortese, Jens Eggers, Tanniemola B. Liverpool

arxiv:1710.04686 v1 · 2017-10-12 · cond-mat.soft

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4FTXW7OLUKS46AVYUHUPRFCLJ3}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:22:27.952311Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e1677b7dcba2a5cf02b8a1e8f8944b4ef373041cd254b55512ec8174c41c7d76

Aliases

arxiv: 1710.04686 · arxiv_version: 1710.04686v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1710.04686 · pith_short_12: 4FTXW7OLUKS4 · pith_short_16: 4FTXW7OLUKS46AVY · pith_short_8: 4FTXW7OL

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/4FTXW7OLUKS46AVYUHUPRFCLJ3 \
  | 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: e1677b7dcba2a5cf02b8a1e8f8944b4ef373041cd254b55512ec8174c41c7d76

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9c64ad52335d80a61bb3baa88b8560d1bf844f04f266ecbda8131ce6df71f76b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cond-mat.soft",
    "submitted_at": "2017-10-12T18:41:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e078aa4a37432b67f55734edf8fa7127a56fba5cfff929d601707951f9186eac"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1710.04686",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}