Pith Number

pith:H4ICDV6B

pith:2006:H4ICDV6BFGPZV54F6G46ZSBK5F

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Life on Both Sides of the Fence: Mentoring Versus Being Mentored

Mason A. Porter

arxiv:physics/0611046 v1 · 2006-11-05 · physics.ed-ph · math.GM · physics.pop-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{H4ICDV6BFGPZV54F6G46ZSBK5F}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-07-04T14:57:44.353167Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3f1021d7c1299f9af785f1b9ecc82ae95537b1ac935b4734f3b80cfb55825f81

Aliases

arxiv: physics/0611046 · arxiv_version: physics/0611046v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.physics/0611046 · pith_short_12: H4ICDV6BFGPZ · pith_short_16: H4ICDV6BFGPZV54F · pith_short_8: H4ICDV6B

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/H4ICDV6BFGPZV54F6G46ZSBK5F \
  | 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: 3f1021d7c1299f9af785f1b9ecc82ae95537b1ac935b4734f3b80cfb55825f81

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "749544328ef85c7c2cec7c6e41c1ba4d09e1711913636bc8e363e6115f9e5d11",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.GM",
      "physics.pop-ph"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "physics.ed-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2006-11-05T23:34:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "978b88c0e57e6b391bbf3b128455b480257dc8470f199b724fc8b6bb31940cc4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "physics/0611046",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}