Pith Number

pith:PJ6CDKNF

pith:2016:PJ6CDKNFKU4DFFI733YACCK5QD

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Surprises in astrophysical gasdynamics

Steven A. Balbus, William J. Potter

arxiv:1603.06489 v1 · 2016-03-21 · astro-ph.HE

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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	2026-05-18T01:13:53.847490Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7a7c21a9a5553832951fdef001095d80da9a9fdf5fdc1169f09f258788cabbfb

Aliases

arxiv: 1603.06489 · arxiv_version: 1603.06489v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1603.06489 · pith_short_12: PJ6CDKNFKU4D · pith_short_16: PJ6CDKNFKU4DFFI7 · pith_short_8: PJ6CDKNF

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/PJ6CDKNFKU4DFFI733YACCK5QD \
  | 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: 7a7c21a9a5553832951fdef001095d80da9a9fdf5fdc1169f09f258788cabbfb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c0595a5a94dad62666140b7f2ea28998818a6cbd59a0b0c0ad70958b19398e5c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2016-03-21T16:42:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8ed18675fc631a09786eec3600b55f5d259556ed435104080a10ed207eae42b2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1603.06489",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}