Pith Number

pith:57DZ6D4L

pith:1997:57DZ6D4LXCZYOSZPLBHGDDFPHL

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Wide ultrarelativistic plasma beam -- magnetic barrier collision and astrophysical applications

M.V. Smolsky, V.V. Usov

arxiv:astro-ph/9704152 v1 · 1997-04-15 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{57DZ6D4LXCZYOSZPLBHGDDFPHL}

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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	2026-05-18T01:40:17.706538Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

efc79f0f8bb8b3874b2f584e618caf3aed0bef7753e9e8ea31daaf06ceebd244

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9704152 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9704152v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9704152 · pith_short_12: 57DZ6D4LXCZY · pith_short_16: 57DZ6D4LXCZYOSZP · pith_short_8: 57DZ6D4L

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/57DZ6D4LXCZYOSZPLBHGDDFPHL \
  | 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: efc79f0f8bb8b3874b2f584e618caf3aed0bef7753e9e8ea31daaf06ceebd244

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1e4fa795ecaaf71b535b10602336562f04954fff325a5e024f93270091c6c39b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1997-04-15T17:47:33Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "645ca17d8b2e8b66a71dea3545961ab1d31e12ea5b528da4a94989c8d9828ed4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9704152",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}