Pith Number

pith:MFQ5BVHY

pith:2017:MFQ5BVHY2PFBHIXDTGFQP5VZJS

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The essence of the Blandford-Znajek process

Shunichiro Kinoshita, Takahisa Igata

arxiv:1710.09152 v3 · 2017-10-25 · gr-qc · astro-ph.HE · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MFQ5BVHY2PFBHIXDTGFQP5VZJS}

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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.

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1 paper in Pith

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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:19:53.438132Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6161d0d4f8d3ca13a2e3998b07f6b94cb505137397374e6e82a5742f81e19268

Aliases

arxiv: 1710.09152 · arxiv_version: 1710.09152v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1710.09152 · pith_short_12: MFQ5BVHY2PFB · pith_short_16: MFQ5BVHY2PFBHIXD · pith_short_8: MFQ5BVHY

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/MFQ5BVHY2PFBHIXDTGFQP5VZJS \
  | 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: 6161d0d4f8d3ca13a2e3998b07f6b94cb505137397374e6e82a5742f81e19268

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "56db945e68bdba95de19213db104843f8706ec2fa19447ed91e7cf6debad607b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.HE",
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "2017-10-25T10:20:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b1d3e725874dab230fc4de0a50d3c435ad60da56060c797a8889076d1a8da878"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1710.09152",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}