Pith Number

pith:655SCW2Y

pith:2009:655SCW2YQXRTZXQPFDY3D4PPSM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Spherical Plasma Dynamo Experiment

C. B. Forest, E. J. Spence, K. Reuter

arxiv:0901.3406 v3 · 2009-01-22 · physics.plasm-ph · astro-ph.EP · astro-ph.GA · physics.flu-dyn · physics.geo-ph · physics.space-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{655SCW2YQXRTZXQPFDY3D4PPSM}

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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	2026-05-18T02:14:56.329345Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f77b215b5885e33cde0f28f1b1f1ef9337490257ba690f67a2f35420cd555ce8

Aliases

arxiv: 0901.3406 · arxiv_version: 0901.3406v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0901.3406 · pith_short_12: 655SCW2YQXRT · pith_short_16: 655SCW2YQXRTZXQP · pith_short_8: 655SCW2Y

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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/655SCW2YQXRTZXQPFDY3D4PPSM \
  | 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: f77b215b5885e33cde0f28f1b1f1ef9337490257ba690f67a2f35420cd555ce8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d20da9dd666fe56b85925436ea0eb9e1cb5db572722275b6c7b060df439d95b2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.EP",
      "astro-ph.GA",
      "physics.flu-dyn",
      "physics.geo-ph",
      "physics.space-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.plasm-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2009-01-22T05:09:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7fd0eea6ddf7af1fe4336f43109d195ace85f37938db2af92caab93edf515801"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0901.3406",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}