Pith Number

pith:TOHPGRBF

pith:2012:TOHPGRBFLKSXYM5OTXA3ZWYZYA

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Interactional processes for stabilizing conceptual coherences in physics

Brian W. Frank, Rachel E. Scherr

arxiv:1205.5531 v1 · 2012-05-24 · physics.ed-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{TOHPGRBFLKSXYM5OTXA3ZWYZYA}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications 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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T01:57:17.698062Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9b8ef344255aa57c33ae9dc1bcdb19c0042c25141093744b3fc93397eb09f94a

Aliases

arxiv: 1205.5531 · arxiv_version: 1205.5531v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1205.5531 · pith_short_12: TOHPGRBFLKSX · pith_short_16: TOHPGRBFLKSXYM5O · pith_short_8: TOHPGRBF

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/TOHPGRBFLKSXYM5OTXA3ZWYZYA \
  | 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: 9b8ef344255aa57c33ae9dc1bcdb19c0042c25141093744b3fc93397eb09f94a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2a3e28aa1fad78fa24d4787ac24258d7a5002008a2c6186912cb9b1efe1702ab",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.ed-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-05-24T19:12:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3018e9a797e19c0959953756da6c4cd46b73e93be20567ac868c17244fa6b2f2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1205.5531",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}