Pith Number

pith:5XMGW2UU

pith:2010:5XMGW2UUY3NIYKMK3QUKB6L6QL

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Probing the sheath electric field with a crystal lattice by using thermophoresis in dusty plasma

Bernard Smith, Lorin Matthews, Truell Hyde, Victor Land

arxiv:1010.4286 v1 · 2010-10-20 · physics.plasm-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5XMGW2UUY3NIYKMK3QUKB6L6QL}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications 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	2026-05-18T02:05:00.448371Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

edd86b6a94c6da8c298adc28a0f97e82e56f44f8b73d2093123a072d7eb6cfd5

Aliases

arxiv: 1010.4286 · arxiv_version: 1010.4286v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1010.4286 · pith_short_12: 5XMGW2UUY3NI · pith_short_16: 5XMGW2UUY3NIYKMK · pith_short_8: 5XMGW2UU

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/5XMGW2UUY3NIYKMK3QUKB6L6QL \
  | 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: edd86b6a94c6da8c298adc28a0f97e82e56f44f8b73d2093123a072d7eb6cfd5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c9e26db12d185bf4612d686a16e7a044340d97a1cc38160e783a07e293adf8e6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.plasm-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2010-10-20T19:24:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "defc5a26c4267f884913603012503294c794f01ca1a9e7991d04543d9f09324f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1010.4286",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}