Pith Number

pith:SWN2FHP6

pith:2020:SWN2FHP6QUZPXMBONMMKTUWHFX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The initial stage of cloud lightning imaged in high-resolution

A. Corstanje, A. Nelles, A. Pel, B.M. Hare, C. Sterpka, G.K. Krampah, H. Falcke, H. Pandya, I. Kolma\v{s}ov\'a, J. Dwyer, J.P. Rachen, J.R. H\"orandel, K. Mulrey, L. Uhl\'i\v{r}, O. Santol\'ik, O. Scholten, P. Mitra, R. L\'an, S. Buitink, S. ter Veen, S. Thoudam, T. Huege, T.N.G. Trinh, T. Winchen

arxiv:2007.03934 v1 · 2020-07-08 · physics.ao-ph · astro-ph.IM

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SWN2FHP6QUZPXMBONMMKTUWHFX}

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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	2026-07-05T02:23:09.737257Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

959ba29dfe8532fbb02e6b18a9d2c72df95881e9017f723a9337c4d589333623

Aliases

arxiv: 2007.03934 · arxiv_version: 2007.03934v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2007.03934 · pith_short_12: SWN2FHP6QUZP · pith_short_16: SWN2FHP6QUZPXMBO · pith_short_8: SWN2FHP6

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/SWN2FHP6QUZPXMBONMMKTUWHFX \
  | 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: 959ba29dfe8532fbb02e6b18a9d2c72df95881e9017f723a9337c4d589333623

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f3a884a2d77d1ecaaba918d9e7fa99d4df9cb5fc4467a685d8970bc2bf0d9221",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.IM"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.ao-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2020-07-08T07:32:33Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3156dc303c2f283ab9caf1cee922d6a78ba16ba9553fc563376319a677468001"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2007.03934",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}