Pith Number

pith:QL4JY4A4

pith:2012:QL4JY4A4GPYEQKNQOR4PXD63WW

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Magnetic explosions: role of the inductive electric field

D.B. Melrose

arxiv:1202.1363 v1 · 2012-02-07 · astro-ph.SR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QL4JY4A4GPYEQKNQOR4PXD63WW}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:58:33.094619Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

82f89c701c33f04829b07478fb8fdbb589580824e49cb7836c2ad90dbec48104

Aliases

arxiv: 1202.1363 · arxiv_version: 1202.1363v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1202.1363 · pith_short_12: QL4JY4A4GPYE · pith_short_16: QL4JY4A4GPYEQKNQ · pith_short_8: QL4JY4A4

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/QL4JY4A4GPYEQKNQOR4PXD63WW \
  | 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: 82f89c701c33f04829b07478fb8fdbb589580824e49cb7836c2ad90dbec48104

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b642525203d107eb9c0d103b65d25aeef5c701ba8f810d1e3d66991b1100e828",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2012-02-07T07:43:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "84de667ecc36b40da375ccf7758e8822c5f9dbcf6e5a9dc97f058800cbe643bf"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1202.1363",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}