Pith Number

pith:KJQPNZQ3

pith:2012:KJQPNZQ3SV6PMKDHUNT3CYSABU

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Theory of magnetic reconnection in solar and astrophysical plasmas

D. I. Pontin

arxiv:1202.4013 v2 · 2012-02-17 · astro-ph.SR · astro-ph.EP · physics.plasm-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KJQPNZQ3SV6PMKDHUNT3CYSABU}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T03:51:58.241745Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5260f6e61b957cf62867a367b162400d2259a7c6a7b35310f8a6aaade48ca7bd

Aliases

arxiv: 1202.4013 · arxiv_version: 1202.4013v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1202.4013 · pith_short_12: KJQPNZQ3SV6P · pith_short_16: KJQPNZQ3SV6PMKDH · pith_short_8: KJQPNZQ3

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/KJQPNZQ3SV6PMKDHUNT3CYSABU \
  | 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: 5260f6e61b957cf62867a367b162400d2259a7c6a7b35310f8a6aaade48ca7bd

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3e4edcf208c9747578f03b9662d17eb5cfb896d5a199d1802b30c3e13ccbf373",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.EP",
      "physics.plasm-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2012-02-17T20:41:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "05626c3f571b2aedb6228fa05b1d1d03cc06bcc5ec2fc8210fc166431722bb75"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1202.4013",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}