Pith Number

pith:MZQYFWE5

pith:2013:MZQYFWE55XRA3PZYBNF5SZF7Y3

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Continuum Lowering -- A New Perspective

B. J. B. Crowley

arxiv:1309.1456 v4 · 2013-09-05 · physics.plasm-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MZQYFWE55XRA3PZYBNF5SZF7Y3}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T02:33:25.594327Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

666182d89dede20dbf380b4bd964bfc6d8bc066cfc8bd128ce3871ea3d204bee

Aliases

arxiv: 1309.1456 · arxiv_version: 1309.1456v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1309.1456 · pith_short_12: MZQYFWE55XRA · pith_short_16: MZQYFWE55XRA3PZY · pith_short_8: MZQYFWE5

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/MZQYFWE55XRA3PZYBNF5SZF7Y3 \
  | 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: 666182d89dede20dbf380b4bd964bfc6d8bc066cfc8bd128ce3871ea3d204bee

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "776fca409e4142349749009162441f8570a0e5aa9478f6e007fe3c75685c0084",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.plasm-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2013-09-05T19:45:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "aed17630ccdd73c4e353d6d5f1c70ef8e488fc463633ca99900f2934977766b5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1309.1456",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}