Pith Number

pith:RAINZQX4

pith:2016:RAINZQX4D2LOMYL53BZWD23ZMJ

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On the stability of a space vehicle riding on an intense laser beam

H. Popova, I. Gabitov, M. Efendiev

arxiv:1610.08043 v4 · 2016-10-26 · astro-ph.IM

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RAINZQX4D2LOMYL53BZWD23ZMJ}

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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	2026-05-18T00:59:18.549298Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8810dcc2fc1e96e6617dd87361eb7962706d30e15636c6a1d918b5984abd91a8

Aliases

arxiv: 1610.08043 · arxiv_version: 1610.08043v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1610.08043 · pith_short_12: RAINZQX4D2LO · pith_short_16: RAINZQX4D2LOMYL5 · pith_short_8: RAINZQX4

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/RAINZQX4D2LOMYL53BZWD23ZMJ \
  | 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: 8810dcc2fc1e96e6617dd87361eb7962706d30e15636c6a1d918b5984abd91a8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8ee484d8078773da10507ed63df08788850de888cb346bc3683fc0881840d694",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.IM",
    "submitted_at": "2016-10-26T11:21:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "453366f14f08e3b80a29a21cbc61da68dc27b2ddab2c6a521727832b3982327d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1610.08043",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}