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pith:BO4TKOUN

pith:2017:BO4TKOUNWHIVR22KTLFKOLGZ6J

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The Plateau-Rayleigh instability in solids is a simple phase separation

Chen Xuan, John S. Biggins

arxiv:1701.03832 v1 · 2017-01-13 · cond-mat.soft · physics.class-ph · physics.flu-dyn

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\pithnumber{BO4TKOUNWHIVR22KTLFKOLGZ6J}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:44:23.814430Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0bb9353a8db1d158eb4a9acaa72cd9f2582b6cb8c583f51387800c43e3865a0e

Aliases

arxiv: 1701.03832 · arxiv_version: 1701.03832v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1701.03832 · pith_short_12: BO4TKOUNWHIV · pith_short_16: BO4TKOUNWHIVR22K · pith_short_8: BO4TKOUN

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/BO4TKOUNWHIVR22KTLFKOLGZ6J \
  | 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: 0bb9353a8db1d158eb4a9acaa72cd9f2582b6cb8c583f51387800c43e3865a0e

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7bff4adbfa66edd21756c753aff901042491b00345faa4a88c35614e60f00073",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.class-ph",
      "physics.flu-dyn"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cond-mat.soft",
    "submitted_at": "2017-01-13T21:31:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3e141c0d7087f413b4f863a20b67af26601dd42cc774245738c12dc738a8b76a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}