Pith Number

pith:BSLGLOPA

pith:2018:BSLGLOPADZQQE3FGCSEWGJ4SNB

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A Model for Ball Lightning Derived from an Extension of the Electrodynamics Equations

Daniele Funaro

arxiv:1806.05555 v1 · 2018-06-13 · physics.gen-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BSLGLOPADZQQE3FGCSEWGJ4SNB}

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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	2026-05-18T00:13:14.800787Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0c9665b9e01e61026ca61489632792686a2b6f8c4b47e5c05220e01a9e1b9619

Aliases

arxiv: 1806.05555 · arxiv_version: 1806.05555v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1806.05555 · pith_short_12: BSLGLOPADZQQ · pith_short_16: BSLGLOPADZQQE3FG · pith_short_8: BSLGLOPA

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/BSLGLOPADZQQE3FGCSEWGJ4SNB \
  | 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: 0c9665b9e01e61026ca61489632792686a2b6f8c4b47e5c05220e01a9e1b9619

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8ef43aa21110b8129541e46af2deff3d4548161efe6ed2748f9308743f0d646b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.gen-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2018-06-13T10:24:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f4d59a8c51505710e5caed4907524dabcf96a621ad2de8b2fa084aae8f9e8e5c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1806.05555",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}