Pith Number

pith:BVAPPM4M

pith:2012:BVAPPM4MNPQDNP7H23NQ7OESZY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Robust topological insulator surface conduction under strong surface disorder

Liang Du, Quansheng Wu, Vincent E. Sacksteder IV

arxiv:1212.2827 v3 · 2012-12-12 · cond-mat.mes-hall

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BVAPPM4MNPQDNP7H23NQ7OESZY}

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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	2026-05-18T01:34:36.085682Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0d40f7b38c6be036bfe7d6db0fb892ce31731584ce505dc32b6f992cc3910bdc

Aliases

arxiv: 1212.2827 · arxiv_version: 1212.2827v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1212.2827 · pith_short_12: BVAPPM4MNPQD · pith_short_16: BVAPPM4MNPQDNP7H · pith_short_8: BVAPPM4M

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/BVAPPM4MNPQDNP7H23NQ7OESZY \
  | 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: 0d40f7b38c6be036bfe7d6db0fb892ce31731584ce505dc32b6f992cc3910bdc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "296141b4beff2f1231bf5229f5542102fc325686068f5a913660f3a614d0a6aa",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cond-mat.mes-hall",
    "submitted_at": "2012-12-12T14:37:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "577b7d67a7ebbc2ae8df9e3ff146cb96e963771e122123ac6909dc8e493e6a57"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1212.2827",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}