Pith Number

pith:F4LFSL4C

pith:2006:F4LFSL4CV2Y4CGGYTAD2DITB5V

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Why the Maxwellian Distribution is the Attractive Fixed Point of the Boltzmann Equation

Ricardo Lopez-Ruiz, Xavier Calbet

arxiv:nlin/0611044 v1 · 2006-11-23 · nlin.CD · cond-mat.stat-mech · cs.MA · math.ST · physics.class-ph · stat.TH

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First computed	2026-05-18T04:08:52.777648Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2f16592f82aeb1c118d89807a1a261ed7c8608930e9f9eec5576f5c9b51263a1

Aliases

arxiv: nlin/0611044 · arxiv_version: nlin/0611044v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.nlin/0611044 · pith_short_12: F4LFSL4CV2Y4 · pith_short_16: F4LFSL4CV2Y4CGGY · pith_short_8: F4LFSL4C

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/F4LFSL4CV2Y4CGGYTAD2DITB5V \
  | 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: 2f16592f82aeb1c118d89807a1a261ed7c8608930e9f9eec5576f5c9b51263a1

Canonical record JSON

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    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ed49d080cc084d1478d5806adf48ffebcb62fb0bf40990add1e727c8ed96e9f6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
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      "cs.MA",
      "math.ST",
      "physics.class-ph",
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "nlin.CD",
    "submitted_at": "2006-11-23T12:27:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "25c4b9c7e2a61c4be7335d8bdee19350871804e4d2287cb3abeeadbcb7df5edc"
  },
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  "source": {
    "id": "nlin/0611044",
    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}