Pith Number

pith:SFO44NDA

pith:2020:SFO44NDADZPWFHYQXM5ZYDYIMK

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On the Origin of Ground-State Vacuum-Field Catalysis: Equilibrium Consideration

Abraham Nitzan, Joseph E. Subotnik, Tao E. Li

arxiv:2002.09977 v2 · 2020-02-23 · physics.chem-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SFO44NDADZPWFHYQXM5ZYDYIMK}

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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	2026-07-05T01:10:34.084656Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

915dce34601e5f629f10bb3b9c0f0862832072b20504eb9b67655b16840e01a4

Aliases

arxiv: 2002.09977 · arxiv_version: 2002.09977v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2002.09977 · pith_short_12: SFO44NDADZPW · pith_short_16: SFO44NDADZPWFHYQ · pith_short_8: SFO44NDA

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/SFO44NDADZPWFHYQXM5ZYDYIMK \
  | 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: 915dce34601e5f629f10bb3b9c0f0862832072b20504eb9b67655b16840e01a4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f53af9fd8dfdd386134e54d58f5805dc48762e94d457b0bb5bd76b6f9586473c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.chem-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2020-02-23T19:59:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3e59f21b3d41d79c1d7916be44df124f4afe2bd9f952236b2477720a77215a0f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2002.09977",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}