Pith Number

pith:U4XVTOH6

pith:2000:U4XVTOH6NE3TNSEIMSAKMUS5FC

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Charging kinetics of dust particles with a variable mass

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arxiv:physics/0006074 v1 · 2000-06-28 · physics.plasm-ph · physics.space-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{U4XVTOH6NE3TNSEIMSAKMUS5FC}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T01:38:11.488395Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a72f59b8fe693736c8886480a6525d2895ca31a0cb8004e623e4a5e09f47dde2

Aliases

arxiv: physics/0006074 · arxiv_version: physics/0006074v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.physics/0006074 · pith_short_12: U4XVTOH6NE3T · pith_short_16: U4XVTOH6NE3TNSEI · pith_short_8: U4XVTOH6

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/U4XVTOH6NE3TNSEIMSAKMUS5FC \
  | 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: a72f59b8fe693736c8886480a6525d2895ca31a0cb8004e623e4a5e09f47dde2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a6644a1f14359415fb01041bf1e5efb278c2a9009940673875967f8e8fa14f4d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.space-ph"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "physics.plasm-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2000-06-28T16:59:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b5c5991c41cb76d4a10fea8b6acf0a0751ea8780ac2509a120a6ef526c248d7b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "physics/0006074",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}