Pith Number

pith:RW6DCJ5C

pith:2011:RW6DCJ5CHXC6X6IM5IPXSYG2BQ

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Observations of an Edge-enhancing Instability in Snow Crystal Growth near -15 C

Kenneth G. Libbrecht

arxiv:1111.2786 v1 · 2011-11-11 · cond-mat.mtrl-sci

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RW6DCJ5CHXC6X6IM5IPXSYG2BQ}

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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	2026-05-18T04:08:25.069753Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8dbc3127a23dc5ebf90cea1f7960da0c2a3882a03301b3cdd97dab74cdb7964f

Aliases

arxiv: 1111.2786 · arxiv_version: 1111.2786v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1111.2786 · pith_short_12: RW6DCJ5CHXC6 · pith_short_16: RW6DCJ5CHXC6X6IM · pith_short_8: RW6DCJ5C

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/RW6DCJ5CHXC6X6IM5IPXSYG2BQ \
  | 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: 8dbc3127a23dc5ebf90cea1f7960da0c2a3882a03301b3cdd97dab74cdb7964f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6457d6c49ac290f8c08d1dc9ddb527d604c6e1a9cbe5d1f4dc86211f35fa3fec",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cond-mat.mtrl-sci",
    "submitted_at": "2011-11-11T16:17:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e30c597e61e1b9f0f6086ca7c06e3690701f33e48538d0418f461c664297bd09"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1111.2786",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}