Pith Number

pith:GBCU5L6N

pith:2010:GBCU5L6N6RZHQWQ2ZTO2ML5LNM

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East-west faults due to planetary contraction

Mikael Beuthe

arxiv:1006.5818 v1 · 2010-06-30 · physics.geo-ph · physics.space-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{GBCU5L6N6RZHQWQ2ZTO2ML5LNM}

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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	2026-05-18T04:36:50.120667Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

30454eafcdf472785a1accdda62fab6b2b3bc7be3395e3d603041c7ec8d412fe

Aliases

arxiv: 1006.5818 · arxiv_version: 1006.5818v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1006.5818 · pith_short_12: GBCU5L6N6RZH · pith_short_16: GBCU5L6N6RZHQWQ2 · pith_short_8: GBCU5L6N

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/GBCU5L6N6RZHQWQ2ZTO2ML5LNM \
  | 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: 30454eafcdf472785a1accdda62fab6b2b3bc7be3395e3d603041c7ec8d412fe

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "24eec1789c8218204ead6a9a59acb27e8c2c99b967de38bb554b064a323d6537",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.space-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.geo-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2010-06-30T09:29:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2a9549b5c676fcfc4fcfc4b02883405135366fc0ab8ec5292d14ef24e276a190"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1006.5818",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}