Pith Number

pith:GNGS3KME

pith:2012:GNGS3KME6IS2VCYYW2RPSXFXDN

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Competing Alignments of Nematic Liquid Crystals on Square Patterned Substrates

Candy Anquetil-Deck, Douglas J Cleaver, Timothy James Atherton

arxiv:1207.1731 v1 · 2012-07-06 · cond-mat.soft

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{GNGS3KME6IS2VCYYW2RPSXFXDN}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:56:27.151889Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

334d2da984f225aa8b18b6a2f95cb71b7f6acd18f1f0423ac151dadc50c88cf4

Aliases

arxiv: 1207.1731 · arxiv_version: 1207.1731v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1207.1731 · pith_short_12: GNGS3KME6IS2 · pith_short_16: GNGS3KME6IS2VCYY · pith_short_8: GNGS3KME

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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/GNGS3KME6IS2VCYYW2RPSXFXDN \
  | 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: 334d2da984f225aa8b18b6a2f95cb71b7f6acd18f1f0423ac151dadc50c88cf4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1863a729510c656c7c2affebd56635dfa3fde347eec2b8226fc6da5279015000",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cond-mat.soft",
    "submitted_at": "2012-07-06T21:01:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0841ebda4d45edf779039aa68c95238ff2bb41e0e8ad282846f5794385a9c445"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1207.1731",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}