Pith Number

pith:6DY5R762

pith:2025:6DY5R762U2QH5LFWJRVNZOBFUF

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Ball Lightning as a profound manifestation of the Dark Matter physics

Ariel Zhitnitsky

arxiv:2502.02653 v2 · 2025-02-04 · hep-ph · astro-ph.EP · astro-ph.HE · physics.ao-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6DY5R762U2QH5LFWJRVNZOBFUF}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-07-05T11:58:24.624189Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f0f1d8ffdaa6a07eacb64c6adcb825a1426ddd16c83edf575bee178f6f0588e6

Aliases

arxiv: 2502.02653 · arxiv_version: 2502.02653v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2502.02653 · pith_short_12: 6DY5R762U2QH · pith_short_16: 6DY5R762U2QH5LFW · pith_short_8: 6DY5R762

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/6DY5R762U2QH5LFWJRVNZOBFUF \
  | 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: f0f1d8ffdaa6a07eacb64c6adcb825a1426ddd16c83edf575bee178f6f0588e6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "be1fd8b01b3d7044a22a5990b3a52745dfc7be0b8c21147ae8c180e80d3deca6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.EP",
      "astro-ph.HE",
      "physics.ao-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2025-02-04T19:00:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "dd758ec3dcc1a08416cfbe71c1282989a986665c12cba366c8b6a60586614889"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2502.02653",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}