Pith Number

pith:RZL2KHWV

pith:2014:RZL2KHWV67EKG2PLCE57NDWTYX

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Is it Possible to Accurately Identify a Shooter's Face as Illuminated by the Muzzle Flash of a 22 LR Pistol?

Michael Courtney

arxiv:1410.6025 v1 · 2014-10-22 · physics.pop-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RZL2KHWV67EKG2PLCE57NDWTYX}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T02:39:32.686793Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8e57a51ed5f7c8a369eb113bf68ed3c5dab49df2ac4b37bae7ed39c37e2fa2f5

Aliases

arxiv: 1410.6025 · arxiv_version: 1410.6025v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1410.6025 · pith_short_12: RZL2KHWV67EK · pith_short_16: RZL2KHWV67EKG2PL · pith_short_8: RZL2KHWV

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/RZL2KHWV67EKG2PLCE57NDWTYX \
  | 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: 8e57a51ed5f7c8a369eb113bf68ed3c5dab49df2ac4b37bae7ed39c37e2fa2f5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "742312975ee1b9ef00d0232deaad9b9169fef98e005f39eab3777d67bc2ed38d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.pop-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2014-10-22T12:46:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "da4607f256509415a9a0eb41c47b11f3fcda1ce6e9485c416220eecffba4e582"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1410.6025",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}