Pith Number

pith:PYPPS2ID

pith:2011:PYPPS2IDND4CAQBZINVSW4NGVN

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Refractive Convergent Plasma Lenses explain ESE and pulsar scintillation

Lindsay King, Ue-Li Pen

arxiv:1111.6806 v1 · 2011-11-29 · astro-ph.GA

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PYPPS2IDND4CAQBZINVSW4NGVN}

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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	2026-05-18T01:59:22.012418Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7e1ef9690368f8204039436b2b71a6ab4438ab3015c646b9f38f6d8913bc6fba

Aliases

arxiv: 1111.6806 · arxiv_version: 1111.6806v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1111.6806 · pith_short_12: PYPPS2IDND4C · pith_short_16: PYPPS2IDND4CAQBZ · pith_short_8: PYPPS2ID

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/PYPPS2IDND4CAQBZINVSW4NGVN \
  | 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: 7e1ef9690368f8204039436b2b71a6ab4438ab3015c646b9f38f6d8913bc6fba

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8b4ca12c7dfe30e2baebc4d0182ecb249aeb94a3c55b02bf65c523b13b050e7c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2011-11-29T13:23:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "32a5ee0c91c48a17553248f7c52c7a84bb8349c6fb12adf096fbb323b4eae9fc"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1111.6806",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}