Pith Number

pith:SDQWWP6A

pith:2026:SDQWWP6AHDAHR7PJAX43FT3BEG

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The Most Dangerous Seed: Nonlinear Optimal Perturbations in Rayleigh-Taylor Instability

Bin Shi, Suoqing Ji

arxiv:2608.04085 v1 · 2026-08-04 · astro-ph.GA · astro-ph.HE · astro-ph.SR · physics.flu-dyn

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\pithnumber{SDQWWP6AHDAHR7PJAX43FT3BEG}

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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.

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First computed	2026-08-06T01:29:05.286616Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

90e16b3fc038c078fde905f9b2cf6121a00f4b6947548e0f4196651ae4d26280

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.04085 · arxiv_version: 2608.04085v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.04085 · pith_short_12: SDQWWP6AHDAH · pith_short_16: SDQWWP6AHDAHR7PJ · pith_short_8: SDQWWP6A

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/SDQWWP6AHDAHR7PJAX43FT3BEG \
  | 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: 90e16b3fc038c078fde905f9b2cf6121a00f4b6947548e0f4196651ae4d26280

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6a22c8f9eabf561464258eabad1a9ad73e7fd814b8dea448824fa5f23bdd8841",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.HE",
      "astro-ph.SR",
      "physics.flu-dyn"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-04T18:00:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e76d511c4cc174bfc1df4137336c67b40ba038f9bd0939bb8ecaafb9113aeeac"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.04085",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}