Pith Number

pith:JOU6KQ2L

pith:2012:JOU6KQ2LJ4W4YCB2Q4LNGCLGSG

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On metastability in nearly-elastic systems

Wenqing Hu

arxiv:1202.0577 v1 · 2012-02-02 · math.PR · math.DS

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JOU6KQ2LJ4W4YCB2Q4LNGCLGSG}

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4 Citations open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T03:46:47.380570Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4ba9e5434b4f2dcc083a8716d3096691a8fca8e5dced855acaf62da58d37bd56

Aliases

arxiv: 1202.0577 · arxiv_version: 1202.0577v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1202.0577 · pith_short_12: JOU6KQ2LJ4W4 · pith_short_16: JOU6KQ2LJ4W4YCB2 · pith_short_8: JOU6KQ2L

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/JOU6KQ2LJ4W4YCB2Q4LNGCLGSG \
  | 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: 4ba9e5434b4f2dcc083a8716d3096691a8fca8e5dced855acaf62da58d37bd56

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b3c33465fdeda7c1246dba4d2c9f3c9b64ba4444b2742bf095c96c0444a1d2ab",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.DS"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2012-02-02T22:37:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "07a6135c1989c221e77c194b56a8380c0918c0d5b162f69f7cd9379562d5c573"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1202.0577",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}