Pith Number

pith:5NT6LBZS

pith:2026:5NT6LBZS2YK3MW6ZRJ33X23D6N

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An explicit, energy-conserving particle-in-cell scheme for relativistic plasmas

Jingwei Hu, Lee Ricketson

arxiv:2605.18542 v1 · 2026-05-18 · physics.plasm-ph · cs.NA · math-ph · math.MP · math.NA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5NT6LBZS2YK3MW6ZRJ33X23D6N}

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4 Citations 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	2026-05-20T00:06:06.834338Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

eb67e58732d615b65bd98a77bbeb63f34eaea8a7eda70dabca6b5583099af208

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.18542 · arxiv_version: 2605.18542v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.18542 · pith_short_12: 5NT6LBZS2YK3 · pith_short_16: 5NT6LBZS2YK3MW6Z · pith_short_8: 5NT6LBZS

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/5NT6LBZS2YK3MW6ZRJ33X23D6N \
  | 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: eb67e58732d615b65bd98a77bbeb63f34eaea8a7eda70dabca6b5583099af208

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c2338cee0fe6b8641e721a43a6f242c70c93acc7c4c65b719700ea699ed19f82",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.NA",
      "math-ph",
      "math.MP",
      "math.NA"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.plasm-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-18T15:23:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "36e4f8b0bf5608c6f58d05e096587b57e9e746a2d18932feaa4cd8d5e4ad6957"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.18542",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}