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pith:HBX3VWRE

pith:2015:HBX3VWREQICHZR5LYHMFCIVRTM

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On the isotropic-biaxial phase transition in nematic liquid crystals

Giuseppe Gaeta

arxiv:1511.08998 v1 · 2015-11-29 · math-ph · cond-mat.soft · math.MP · physics.class-ph

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:30:22.717368Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

386fbada2482047cc7abc1d85122b19b04aa027840fd5d782b0232ac25e98b4e

Aliases

arxiv: 1511.08998 · arxiv_version: 1511.08998v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1511.08998 · pith_short_12: HBX3VWREQICH · pith_short_16: HBX3VWREQICHZR5L · pith_short_8: HBX3VWRE

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/HBX3VWREQICHZR5LYHMFCIVRTM \
  | 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: 386fbada2482047cc7abc1d85122b19b04aa027840fd5d782b0232ac25e98b4e

Canonical record JSON

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      "physics.class-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2015-11-29T12:02:20Z",
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  },
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  }
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