Pith Number

pith:N5JVXZ3C

pith:1996:N5JVXZ3CLRDJXTGV2XWBPHLBP5

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Theory of the Breakdown of the Quantum Hall Effect

C. Wexler, D.J. Thouless, J.H. Han, K. Tsemekhman, V. Tsemekhman

arxiv:cond-mat/9608029 v1 · 1996-08-06 · cond-mat

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{N5JVXZ3CLRDJXTGV2XWBPHLBP5}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-07-04T16:00:52.178664Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6f535be7625c469bccd5d5ec179d617f459556ec849f712f6961e7712963f146

Aliases

arxiv: cond-mat/9608029 · arxiv_version: cond-mat/9608029v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.cond-mat/9608029 · pith_short_12: N5JVXZ3CLRDJ · pith_short_16: N5JVXZ3CLRDJXTGV · pith_short_8: N5JVXZ3C

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/N5JVXZ3CLRDJXTGV2XWBPHLBP5 \
  | 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: 6f535be7625c469bccd5d5ec179d617f459556ec849f712f6961e7712963f146

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "000223df70296a52ba0fea749122c753b7cf4816b7ba2f1271f9b09834a49773",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "cond-mat",
    "submitted_at": "1996-08-06T23:01:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "98b11c22aa1c4342aa145b539de0e58ad007ce87f7ba24c2b0c40f6eaf495cc0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "cond-mat/9608029",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}