Pith Number

pith:QM3HB7LB

pith:2015:QM3HB7LBJ7KZJLPA67ZRVAUKNR

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Nanoscale wear and kinetic friction between atomically smooth surfaces sliding at high speeds

Bruno Marchon, Erhard Schreck, Sripathi V. Canchi, Sukumar Rajauria

arxiv:1502.03760 v1 · 2015-02-12 · cond-mat.mes-hall

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QM3HB7LBJ7KZJLPA67ZRVAUKNR}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:15:23.784442Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

833670fd614fd594ade0f7f31a828a6c7db75cfb8752b456adbf825056bd50d8

Aliases

arxiv: 1502.03760 · arxiv_version: 1502.03760v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1502.03760 · pith_short_12: QM3HB7LBJ7KZ · pith_short_16: QM3HB7LBJ7KZJLPA · pith_short_8: QM3HB7LB

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/QM3HB7LBJ7KZJLPA67ZRVAUKNR \
  | 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: 833670fd614fd594ade0f7f31a828a6c7db75cfb8752b456adbf825056bd50d8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "87f65b1d5e430a690a83cb190bc81d1a8cb9d416f005321b718949935a222ad2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cond-mat.mes-hall",
    "submitted_at": "2015-02-12T18:12:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7403646110019949a2ffdba37c80ee6251c75f0c4c37f1ab75d348eed77b5c59"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1502.03760",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}