Pith Number

pith:J4WRD4DX

pith:1998:J4WRD4DXNTN425N7PN3NZUGLEI

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Reconnection via the Tearing Instability

A. Lazarian, Ethan T. Vishniac

arxiv:astro-ph/9804166 v1 · 1998-04-16 · astro-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{J4WRD4DXNTN425N7PN3NZUGLEI}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-07-04T14:15:46.052972Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4f2d11f0776cdbcd75bf7b76dcd0cb220cf73a7d64065fc9079ce5bb65c9aa42

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9804166 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9804166v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9804166 · pith_short_12: J4WRD4DXNTN4 · pith_short_16: J4WRD4DXNTN425N7 · pith_short_8: J4WRD4DX

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/J4WRD4DXNTN425N7PN3NZUGLEI \
  | 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: 4f2d11f0776cdbcd75bf7b76dcd0cb220cf73a7d64065fc9079ce5bb65c9aa42

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f63b46ba0e1e43baa3be62306c37339ab326f8d197a6de297c20c0d886805d46",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1998-04-16T21:06:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c0239e8146798e81da3f8f65cc40b996c1df066f21d740da939c9a4a0c8d9ac2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9804166",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}