Pith Number

pith:4M3RXXBR

pith:2018:4M3RXXBRK3PPLRPNZNJ66WV26V

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A gradient flow for the p-elastic energy defined on closed planar curves

Glen Wheeler, Paola Pozzi, Shinya Okabe

arxiv:1811.06608 v1 · 2018-11-15 · math.DG · math.AP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4M3RXXBRK3PPLRPNZNJ66WV26V}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:00:34.377967Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e3371bdc3156def5c5edcb53ef5abaf574e5c772f1bb493715442dae734e659d

Aliases

arxiv: 1811.06608 · arxiv_version: 1811.06608v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1811.06608 · pith_short_12: 4M3RXXBRK3PP · pith_short_16: 4M3RXXBRK3PPLRPN · pith_short_8: 4M3RXXBR

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/4M3RXXBRK3PPLRPNZNJ66WV26V \
  | 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: e3371bdc3156def5c5edcb53ef5abaf574e5c772f1bb493715442dae734e659d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "763cbfbb9345b1ffb7dd818e6cb8d918672c639bd727d4b1f700df8c88afbf0a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.AP"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.DG",
    "submitted_at": "2018-11-15T22:03:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9de671d912c9d4118bb3ea9fdbc204168d167c1f22b47f82e68f5d6e86bcd19f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1811.06608",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}