Pith Number

pith:PHS4WD3J

pith:2012:PHS4WD3JQHELAF5KOM4NAZZQRX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Optical probing of shocks driven into overdense plasmas by laser hole-boring

A. E. Dangor, A. R. Bell, C. A. J. Palmer, I. Pogorelsky, J. Schreiber, M. Babzien, M. Ispiriyan, M. N. Polyanskiy, N. P. Dover, P. Shkolnikov, S. Schwartz, T. Horbury, V. Yakimenko, Z. Najmudin

arxiv:1205.4558 v2 · 2012-05-21 · physics.plasm-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PHS4WD3JQHELAF5KOM4NAZZQRX}

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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	2026-05-18T03:55:11.815396Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

79e5cb0f6981c8b017aa7338d067308df9c08b124879ccd8f760aebcd7bbc2eb

Aliases

arxiv: 1205.4558 · arxiv_version: 1205.4558v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1205.4558 · pith_short_12: PHS4WD3JQHEL · pith_short_16: PHS4WD3JQHELAF5K · pith_short_8: PHS4WD3J

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/PHS4WD3JQHELAF5KOM4NAZZQRX \
  | 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: 79e5cb0f6981c8b017aa7338d067308df9c08b124879ccd8f760aebcd7bbc2eb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "85de5d2b04339d97e8399fa6858f77c4b48ee91573f5b8c2403c2f485bff7439",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.plasm-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-05-21T10:41:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8b92fc425d47aeda5b133a5bc6e897f52b65b7109212b133fc65f1417d5e9450"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1205.4558",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}