Pith Number

pith:4IXF4LD7

pith:2011:4IXF4LD7POI3WZXXE27B5G6FVQ

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Persistent Currents in Normal Metal Rings (Yale PhD thesis)

William E. Shanks

arxiv:1112.3395 v1 · 2011-12-15 · cond-mat.mes-hall

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4IXF4LD7POI3WZXXE27B5G6FVQ}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T04:06:18.672878Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e22e5e2c7f7b91bb66f726be1e9bc5ac34922b602719dbdcc500e78870562bfa

Aliases

arxiv: 1112.3395 · arxiv_version: 1112.3395v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1112.3395 · pith_short_12: 4IXF4LD7POI3 · pith_short_16: 4IXF4LD7POI3WZXX · pith_short_8: 4IXF4LD7

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/4IXF4LD7POI3WZXXE27B5G6FVQ \
  | 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: e22e5e2c7f7b91bb66f726be1e9bc5ac34922b602719dbdcc500e78870562bfa

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "abe2a02a31542cd5ae22ef8484c07fd04e8781d082aeb3d025c16582a32c82af",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cond-mat.mes-hall",
    "submitted_at": "2011-12-15T00:04:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "070d37f38376002223593a03e759be3c2ed47a8cdf02945af20f5cf2b9b51676"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1112.3395",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}