Pith Number

pith:KO4APJEH

pith:2014:KO4APJEHLLNPNOQTG6WGHCBA4P

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Are perytons signatures of ball lightning?

I. Y. Dodin, N. J. Fisch

arxiv:1405.4033 v3 · 2014-05-15 · physics.plasm-ph · astro-ph.GA

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KO4APJEHLLNPNOQTG6WGHCBA4P}

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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	2026-05-18T01:43:11.869343Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

53b807a4875adaf6ba1337ac638820e3c56460cc94d2f8e6adf5bfdc7f86e3e3

Aliases

arxiv: 1405.4033 · arxiv_version: 1405.4033v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1405.4033 · pith_short_12: KO4APJEHLLNP · pith_short_16: KO4APJEHLLNPNOQT · pith_short_8: KO4APJEH

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/KO4APJEHLLNPNOQTG6WGHCBA4P \
  | 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: 53b807a4875adaf6ba1337ac638820e3c56460cc94d2f8e6adf5bfdc7f86e3e3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8094efad36f627fbca040a4ed8016d5889c919644a3aa5e5dfe769e8fe1fa511",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.GA"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.plasm-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2014-05-15T22:54:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2bf4533de628b47bdc97b2eb4de88a7a60eba4ffb666e7114af6f29d44be3851"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1405.4033",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}