Pith Number

pith:FLP2G6AR

pith:2013:FLP2G6ARUR4VRE3B6SGIBSJQNS

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Understanding the Chain Fountain

John Simeon Biggins, Mark Warner

arxiv:1310.4056 v2 · 2013-10-15 · physics.class-ph · physics.pop-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{FLP2G6ARUR4VRE3B6SGIBSJQNS}

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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	2026-05-18T02:48:09.866248Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2adfa37811a479589361f48c80c9306ca87f9ed872d174b05b3c67dcba0c16f6

Aliases

arxiv: 1310.4056 · arxiv_version: 1310.4056v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1310.4056 · pith_short_12: FLP2G6ARUR4V · pith_short_16: FLP2G6ARUR4VRE3B · pith_short_8: FLP2G6AR

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/FLP2G6ARUR4VRE3B6SGIBSJQNS \
  | 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: 2adfa37811a479589361f48c80c9306ca87f9ed872d174b05b3c67dcba0c16f6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5362b40fa57e4198510aa17d190c9fd7bc7086b0ded77405bf3d2dc0092167e9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.pop-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.class-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2013-10-15T13:59:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4841b98e0b146041201f6ca0f1e6d398242bf2d2b6894050f0f2ef3cb6241cdb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1310.4056",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}