Pith Number

pith:A5JEFT7B

pith:2016:A5JEFT7BESK2QBFE5EMEDEBYNF

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Particle-in-cell study of the ion-to-electron sheath transition

Benjamin T. Yee, Brett Scheiner, Edward V. Barnat, Matthew M. Hopkins, Scott D. Baalrud

arxiv:1604.08251 v1 · 2016-04-27 · physics.plasm-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{A5JEFT7BESK2QBFE5EMEDEBYNF}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:08:09.688246Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

075242cfe12495a804a4e918419038696db19d2a171c7b3b99f1bc714fefdb8e

Aliases

arxiv: 1604.08251 · arxiv_version: 1604.08251v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1604.08251 · pith_short_12: A5JEFT7BESK2 · pith_short_16: A5JEFT7BESK2QBFE · pith_short_8: A5JEFT7B

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/A5JEFT7BESK2QBFE5EMEDEBYNF \
  | 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: 075242cfe12495a804a4e918419038696db19d2a171c7b3b99f1bc714fefdb8e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "23fce84c63afd3c3dcdc503ac2d36fa2e6f34a1a2b20cf363c9a61180281c29c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.plasm-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-04-27T21:41:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0a8058379654d67b6bd7f47173f1ec24245a1885eb1ccedd0965f5d8920a566b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1604.08251",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}