Pith Number

pith:L6VJGHDE

pith:2013:L6VJGHDERP7ATJSJ7SEPTYILNJ

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The mechanics of a chain or ring of spherical magnets

Alain Goriely, Cameron L. Hall, Dominic Vella

arxiv:1310.3436 v1 · 2013-10-12 · math.CA · cond-mat.mtrl-sci · cond-mat.soft

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T03:05:35.321800Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5faa931c648bfe09a649fc88f9e10b6a6ee393676e07055f0835a2c609145988

Aliases

arxiv: 1310.3436 · arxiv_version: 1310.3436v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1310.3436 · pith_short_12: L6VJGHDERP7A · pith_short_16: L6VJGHDERP7ATJSJ · pith_short_8: L6VJGHDE

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/L6VJGHDERP7ATJSJ7SEPTYILNJ \
  | 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: 5faa931c648bfe09a649fc88f9e10b6a6ee393676e07055f0835a2c609145988

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "41d29848aa9bb15c84a295bd1704d90a27f8956420488bd791241e66b1d9c918",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cond-mat.mtrl-sci",
      "cond-mat.soft"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.CA",
    "submitted_at": "2013-10-12T23:39:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "205ee1435378f710668a8152de2a99a2ff602cb239590d0b138648621aba890f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1310.3436",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}