Pith Number

pith:RNFCXXG5

pith:2010:RNFCXXG5ZT5KGKBNP56TPCF2V2

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Investigations about Science Misconceptions

M. Risch

arxiv:1009.5524 v1 · 2010-09-28 · physics.ed-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RNFCXXG5ZT5KGKBNP56TPCF2V2}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T04:40:09.932211Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8b4a2bdcddccfaa3282d7f7d3788baaea633f5f81acb7058142fb202587d8705

Aliases

arxiv: 1009.5524 · arxiv_version: 1009.5524v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1009.5524 · pith_short_12: RNFCXXG5ZT5K · pith_short_16: RNFCXXG5ZT5KGKBN · pith_short_8: RNFCXXG5

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/RNFCXXG5ZT5KGKBNP56TPCF2V2 \
  | 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: 8b4a2bdcddccfaa3282d7f7d3788baaea633f5f81acb7058142fb202587d8705

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "642f6849841969194f7b0631de6d5c1ea3cac67f1126ca5ded46ad2ce75801f2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.ed-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2010-09-28T10:40:17Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "28c6af499da2c84cb8944686ca041b8b3a710f699405bb208a00534a3173bcf1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1009.5524",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}