Pith Number

pith:54YBVDDU

pith:2012:54YBVDDUYDQTYMUAXULBBX3ALK

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Pattern Formation in a Drying Drop of Starch Gel with Sodium Chloride

Moutushi Dutta Choudhury, Sayanee Jana, Sruti Dutta, Sujata Tarafdar

arxiv:1204.0118 v1 · 2012-03-31 · cond-mat.soft

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{54YBVDDUYDQTYMUAXULBBX3ALK}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T03:58:50.329459Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ef301a8c74c0e13c3280bd1610df605ab916ed5faf0c08ba822d6e2a4572bfeb

Aliases

arxiv: 1204.0118 · arxiv_version: 1204.0118v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1204.0118 · pith_short_12: 54YBVDDUYDQT · pith_short_16: 54YBVDDUYDQTYMUA · pith_short_8: 54YBVDDU

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/54YBVDDUYDQTYMUAXULBBX3ALK \
  | 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: ef301a8c74c0e13c3280bd1610df605ab916ed5faf0c08ba822d6e2a4572bfeb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4c1c89d639f77e40b5f26d752c92751f6e506ef89bd2faa143168d7d825daabf",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cond-mat.soft",
    "submitted_at": "2012-03-31T17:41:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1df3029b6714c33876004520b22cdb2bd82a3d9fabddbed117ba8e884959df12"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1204.0118",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}