Pith Number

pith:SNQEH5NZ

pith:2019:SNQEH5NZHGFSJHS2V2T3BSCTRV

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Kink instability: evolution and energy dissipation in Relativistic Force-Free Non-Rotating Jets

Alexander A. Philippov, Chandra B. Singh, Jordy Davelaar, Omer Bromberg

arxiv:1908.08620 v2 · 2019-08-22 · astro-ph.HE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SNQEH5NZHGFSJHS2V2T3BSCTRV}

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4 Citations 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.

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First computed	2026-07-05T00:12:05.375688Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

936043f5b9398b249e5aaea7b0c8538d4f808650b7c412bf8df93408f76f3970

Aliases

arxiv: 1908.08620 · arxiv_version: 1908.08620v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1908.08620 · pith_short_12: SNQEH5NZHGFS · pith_short_16: SNQEH5NZHGFSJHS2 · pith_short_8: SNQEH5NZ

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/SNQEH5NZHGFSJHS2V2T3BSCTRV \
  | 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: 936043f5b9398b249e5aaea7b0c8538d4f808650b7c412bf8df93408f76f3970

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1811563460a6feb41d05cc365b47dc4ca598bf38e7ef0af1d48409424501d219",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2019-08-22T23:26:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "75e06668777909a4ebb3486025be406a1b6fb2d4372bc36a9da6891ffb7d78da"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1908.08620",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}