Pith Number

pith:MSH5C5VS

pith:2017:MSH5C5VSYCCWQXNDGIMJ3LKAEM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Evidence of new finite beam plasma instability for magnetic field generation

Amita Das, Amit D. Lad, Atul Kumar, Bhavesh Patel, Chandrasekhar Shukla, Deepa Verma, G. R. Kumar, K. A. Tanaka, Predhiman Kaw, Ratan Kumar Bera, Y. Hayashi

arxiv:1712.03099 v1 · 2017-12-07 · physics.plasm-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MSH5C5VSYCCWQXNDGIMJ3LKAEM}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:28:28.333854Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

648fd176b2c085685da332189dad402330b7377f2dba34964a7ee9069bec2698

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.03099 · arxiv_version: 1712.03099v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.03099 · pith_short_12: MSH5C5VSYCCW · pith_short_16: MSH5C5VSYCCWQXND · pith_short_8: MSH5C5VS

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/MSH5C5VSYCCWQXNDGIMJ3LKAEM \
  | 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: 648fd176b2c085685da332189dad402330b7377f2dba34964a7ee9069bec2698

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "160c644e64897ea5db7cea7d748e46110b13b8844640e041dd42c918834af4eb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.plasm-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-07T12:08:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "70cc9e0a72fe5d9d95d4810cfb0663d31540431aafcc80a0c44068042540a6c5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.03099",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}