Pith Number

pith:DCG6MTXC

pith:2015:DCG6MTXCOU3KFB2YKUKWOZMNEE

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The roots of physics students' motivations: Fear and Integrity

Ben Van Dusen

arxiv:1502.04256 v1 · 2015-02-14 · physics.ed-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{DCG6MTXCOU3KFB2YKUKWOZMNEE}

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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	2026-05-18T02:27:00.106624Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

188de64ee27536a28758551567658d211ae48d6336478d6bacf0b6cda0fdc7ba

Aliases

arxiv: 1502.04256 · arxiv_version: 1502.04256v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1502.04256 · pith_short_12: DCG6MTXCOU3K · pith_short_16: DCG6MTXCOU3KFB2Y · pith_short_8: DCG6MTXC

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/DCG6MTXCOU3KFB2YKUKWOZMNEE \
  | 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: 188de64ee27536a28758551567658d211ae48d6336478d6bacf0b6cda0fdc7ba

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ad70f3cec60de63a90a3fab7f636b7351830da82f9453cacace2e9e3b3d0480c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.ed-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2015-02-14T22:32:55Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "196ec3ecca72063a49758857b137f00e00f3790686744009ff5fe7f852960f9e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1502.04256",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}