Pith Number

pith:6V4BJ6IX

pith:2018:6V4BJ6IXE4DTW2WR4Q4YK4PYDE

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On the Formation and Properties of Fluid Shocks and Collisionless Shock Waves in Astrophysical Plasmas

Antoine Bret, Asaf Pe'er

arxiv:1803.09744 v2 · 2018-03-26 · physics.plasm-ph · astro-ph.HE · astro-ph.SR · physics.space-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6V4BJ6IXE4DTW2WR4Q4YK4PYDE}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:10:38.122808Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f57814f91727073b6ad1e4398571f81912d724c64c392e46218653275dae7ea2

Aliases

arxiv: 1803.09744 · arxiv_version: 1803.09744v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1803.09744 · pith_short_12: 6V4BJ6IXE4DT · pith_short_16: 6V4BJ6IXE4DTW2WR · pith_short_8: 6V4BJ6IX

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/6V4BJ6IXE4DTW2WR4Q4YK4PYDE \
  | 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: f57814f91727073b6ad1e4398571f81912d724c64c392e46218653275dae7ea2

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.HE",
      "astro-ph.SR",
      "physics.space-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.plasm-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2018-03-26T17:59:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "df9e93a66673884dcbfbc793c61c9e69a8447d133823bf9f51930a58a732d09a"
  },
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  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}