Pith Number

pith:BVKGOURP

pith:2017:BVKGOURPT5CD4GTXYZ45AQSYYM

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Constraints to do realistic modeling of the electric field ahead of the tip of a lightning leader

Alexander Broberg Skeltved, Andrew Mezentsev, Brant Carlson, Nikolai Lehtinen, Nikolai {\O}stgaard

arxiv:1708.07315 v1 · 2017-08-24 · physics.space-ph · physics.plasm-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BVKGOURPT5CD4GTXYZ45AQSYYM}

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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	2026-05-18T00:36:46.596871Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0d5467522f9f443e1a77c679d04258c31d09f364875f8c92866500858af6d459

Aliases

arxiv: 1708.07315 · arxiv_version: 1708.07315v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.07315 · pith_short_12: BVKGOURPT5CD · pith_short_16: BVKGOURPT5CD4GTX · pith_short_8: BVKGOURP

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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/BVKGOURPT5CD4GTXYZ45AQSYYM \
  | 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: 0d5467522f9f443e1a77c679d04258c31d09f364875f8c92866500858af6d459

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8dc72fc1053cdbe3e3ffa7955e552a2b59c4cab92c702b041894ec4d09efbe01",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.plasm-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.space-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-24T08:55:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ceb10d415c3da13a7c0a5227ef3fd0b85806757b1a4bfb51961a19439f1d2ce0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1708.07315",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}