Pith Number

pith:RIV5SUJZ

pith:1996:RIV5SUJZWFH6PILHTO26XEIXTT

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Applications of a tight-binding total energy method for transition and noble metals: Elastic Constants, Vacancies, and Surfaces of Monatomic Metals

Dimitrios A. Papaconstantopoulos (Naval Research Laboratory), Michael J. Mehl

arxiv:mtrl-th/9602003 v2 · 1996-02-22 · mtrl-th · cond-mat.mtrl-sci

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\pithnumber{RIV5SUJZWFH6PILHTO26XEIXTT}

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First computed	2026-07-04T15:08:17.109279Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8a2bd95139b14fe7a1679bb5eb91179cfa4d1a14aaed0a383129f9d7186020dc

Aliases

arxiv: mtrl-th/9602003 · arxiv_version: mtrl-th/9602003v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.mtrl-th/9602003 · pith_short_12: RIV5SUJZWFH6 · pith_short_16: RIV5SUJZWFH6PILH · pith_short_8: RIV5SUJZ

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/RIV5SUJZWFH6PILHTO26XEIXTT \
  | 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: 8a2bd95139b14fe7a1679bb5eb91179cfa4d1a14aaed0a383129f9d7186020dc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5ec7cb68e44674477709c835d885497a5fb4fb7db963d2e5e26e19c4588f28f8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cond-mat.mtrl-sci"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "mtrl-th",
    "submitted_at": "1996-02-22T14:42:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "21ae241790620810cf99fbb688612ef8a78b783e92b70f7613b9a521051621f0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "mtrl-th/9602003",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}