Pith Number

pith:BHQRTGMY

pith:2004:BHQRTGMY7EDIATEOP6QARS4WBC

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Viscous Shear Instability in Weakly Magnetized, Dilute Plasmas

Steven A. Balbus

arxiv:astro-ph/0403678 v2 · 2004-03-30 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BHQRTGMY7EDIATEOP6QARS4WBC}

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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	2026-07-04T16:43:29.507113Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

09e1199998f906804c8e7fa008cb9608b711b12a393473555f9b9338131bb258

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0403678 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0403678v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0403678 · pith_short_12: BHQRTGMY7EDI · pith_short_16: BHQRTGMY7EDIATEO · pith_short_8: BHQRTGMY

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/BHQRTGMY7EDIATEOP6QARS4WBC \
  | 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: 09e1199998f906804c8e7fa008cb9608b711b12a393473555f9b9338131bb258

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "79c43e9f0e36b43da42bfdc36a2f55a3c0cb1adbfed0773f131ccb6b2c7b9dc3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2004-03-30T14:47:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "02241639f33304628b4373eea680842dc96e0b043c29549de69dc8a83ac96e31"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0403678",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}