Pith Number

pith:M553AL4W

pith:2012:M553AL4WCDMHKNSB3EFRAM5PJ3

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Response to Comment of Shukla and Akbari-Moghanjoughi

B. P. Pandey, J. Vranjes, S. Poedts

arxiv:1208.2522 v2 · 2012-08-13 · physics.plasm-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{M553AL4WCDMHKNSB3EFRAM5PJ3}

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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	2026-05-18T01:55:16.483025Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

677bb02f9610d8753641d90b1033af4edc867c99faecc66c9cfaebba631ce6c5

Aliases

arxiv: 1208.2522 · arxiv_version: 1208.2522v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1208.2522 · pith_short_12: M553AL4WCDMH · pith_short_16: M553AL4WCDMHKNSB · pith_short_8: M553AL4W

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/M553AL4WCDMHKNSB3EFRAM5PJ3 \
  | 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: 677bb02f9610d8753641d90b1033af4edc867c99faecc66c9cfaebba631ce6c5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9db338cd6ecba74cc5b4c1e7efb7eb7309a47900ed082a5144be711352fa8513",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.plasm-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-08-13T08:25:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "90f7ec4ba5bc52760921febd6ac841da8d18db3b4c958cb839773aa3f2880906"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1208.2522",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}