Pith Number

pith:LAMZ4BMC

pith:2011:LAMZ4BMCDD6AW3MHOWEBVYVDFA

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The Never Ending Gale: its Role in Captain Robert F. Scott and his Companions' Deaths

Krzysztof Sienicki

arxiv:1109.5355 v1 · 2011-09-25 · physics.hist-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LAMZ4BMCDD6AW3MHOWEBVYVDFA}

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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	2026-05-18T04:11:51.137353Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

58199e058218fc0b6d8775881ae2a3281f1ea858f7440d557232204df6ad744f

Aliases

arxiv: 1109.5355 · arxiv_version: 1109.5355v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1109.5355 · pith_short_12: LAMZ4BMCDD6A · pith_short_16: LAMZ4BMCDD6AW3MH · pith_short_8: LAMZ4BMC

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/LAMZ4BMCDD6AW3MHOWEBVYVDFA \
  | 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: 58199e058218fc0b6d8775881ae2a3281f1ea858f7440d557232204df6ad744f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a3319a8a558a604bc5daa558fbdb0c2b12e47e2c82e23de4bd81fe57c261171d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.hist-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2011-09-25T13:01:55Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "37aecf8fa8c30fb2ca94fd750e5839cb04a1735c45bc20c728207935d8a782ce"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1109.5355",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}