Pith Number

pith:6TLG4BUK

pith:2014:6TLG4BUK52SRL7V5ESMYHXAJRQ

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Nucleation of a new phase on a surface that is changing irreversibly with time

Richard P. Sear

arxiv:1401.0505 v1 · 2014-01-02 · cond-mat.soft · cond-mat.stat-mech

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6TLG4BUK52SRL7V5ESMYHXAJRQ}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T02:20:36.974769Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f4d66e068aeea515febd249983dc098c27e8c8891689415d7c185815d514938e

Aliases

arxiv: 1401.0505 · arxiv_version: 1401.0505v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1401.0505 · pith_short_12: 6TLG4BUK52SR · pith_short_16: 6TLG4BUK52SRL7V5 · pith_short_8: 6TLG4BUK

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/6TLG4BUK52SRL7V5ESMYHXAJRQ \
  | 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: f4d66e068aeea515febd249983dc098c27e8c8891689415d7c185815d514938e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3427e5af1410d2ef06b1e089406ed369d4f07ab3e0dcebda60ddc2248b5ac99b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cond-mat.stat-mech"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cond-mat.soft",
    "submitted_at": "2014-01-02T18:48:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7ed6485d2685da4379f344113dd822b94b4564709f16b66e8d865ed2f8c2e7a5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1401.0505",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}