Pith Number

pith:GO4NY2M2

pith:2015:GO4NY2M2KOFSGTGHUB6HVV2L43

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Evolution of field line helicity during magnetic reconnection

Alexander J. B. Russell, Anthony R. Yeates, Antonia L. Wilmot-Smith, Gunnar Hornig

arxiv:1501.04856 v2 · 2015-01-20 · physics.plasm-ph · astro-ph.SR

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\pithnumber{GO4NY2M2KOFSGTGHUB6HVV2L43}

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First computed	2026-05-18T02:25:18.195026Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

33b8dc699a538b234cc7a07c7ad74be6f948a04d44d6d22ed059cba31de3c545

Aliases

arxiv: 1501.04856 · arxiv_version: 1501.04856v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1501.04856 · pith_short_12: GO4NY2M2KOFS · pith_short_16: GO4NY2M2KOFSGTGH · pith_short_8: GO4NY2M2

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/GO4NY2M2KOFSGTGHUB6HVV2L43 \
  | 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: 33b8dc699a538b234cc7a07c7ad74be6f948a04d44d6d22ed059cba31de3c545

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "300dd87c66f9a3f0e2e0640423b7a6a2ff47a3d0aabf1cdac0ff9664b8304b01",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.SR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.plasm-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2015-01-20T15:55:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b75e4868ee7b01abfc337613199e525c2a05abea37c798e896e67bd8b186933a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1501.04856",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}