Pith Number

pith:DSZSTTGU

pith:2016:DSZSTTGUA6BOGKX575AHNQI3L6

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Stability of a Light Sail Riding on a Laser Beam

Abraham Loeb (Harvard), Zachary Manchester

arxiv:1609.09506 v3 · 2016-09-29 · astro-ph.IM · physics.optics · physics.space-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{DSZSTTGUA6BOGKX575AHNQI3L6}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T00:48:47.096579Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1cb329ccd40782e32afdff4076c11b5fb83ae97f1adea2332225472ea5fc09c8

Aliases

arxiv: 1609.09506 · arxiv_version: 1609.09506v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1609.09506 · pith_short_12: DSZSTTGUA6BO · pith_short_16: DSZSTTGUA6BOGKX5 · pith_short_8: DSZSTTGU

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/DSZSTTGUA6BOGKX575AHNQI3L6 \
  | 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: 1cb329ccd40782e32afdff4076c11b5fb83ae97f1adea2332225472ea5fc09c8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a8861fa6687c2acf16f64a3af245b6deabc3383b7e5b3f114f6a9a8e52aedaad",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.optics",
      "physics.space-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.IM",
    "submitted_at": "2016-09-29T20:01:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "820c6bc44de444d6a46b0f14087502d2580170b50eb815d542f01dde25efb611"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1609.09506",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}