Pith Number

pith:F7RINWZP

pith:2019:F7RINWZPWL2T2EFZDX3EZOWD2V

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PHY Research Is Sick but Curable: An Empirical Analysis

Basem Shihada, Kevin Luo, Mohamed-Slim Alouini, Shuping Dang

arxiv:1908.06035 v1 · 2019-08-16 · cs.IT · cs.CY · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{F7RINWZPWL2T2EFZDX3EZOWD2V}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-07-04T23:57:55.378178Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2fe286db2fb2f53d10b91df64cbac3d5554dd17652991d744e1ac3cab39791d4

Aliases

arxiv: 1908.06035 · arxiv_version: 1908.06035v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1908.06035 · pith_short_12: F7RINWZPWL2T · pith_short_16: F7RINWZPWL2T2EFZ · pith_short_8: F7RINWZP

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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/F7RINWZPWL2T2EFZDX3EZOWD2V \
  | 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: 2fe286db2fb2f53d10b91df64cbac3d5554dd17652991d744e1ac3cab39791d4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "bbe3e3390d5ff7d257d97cc9f58e53dab1d05fd01f4887a26c0828093b3e4fba",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CY",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2019-08-16T15:42:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d5b7fe884a4e14294693e8a9f85d67561f36c5b46f1c4a4ec0b73787d044a562"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1908.06035",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}