Pith Number

pith:UICCP56L

pith:2001:UICCP56LC4NJZVQCXQF43ZGL2V

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Ball Lightning: Manifestation of Cosmic Little Black Holes

Mario Rabinowitz

arxiv:astro-ph/0104056 v1 · 2001-04-03 · astro-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{UICCP56LC4NJZVQCXQF43ZGL2V}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T01:40:44.707641Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a20427f7cb171a9cd602bc0bcde4cbd554a23e360f2643bd2a58a68f5e1f6eea

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0104056 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0104056v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0104056 · pith_short_12: UICCP56LC4NJ · pith_short_16: UICCP56LC4NJZVQC · pith_short_8: UICCP56L

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/UICCP56LC4NJZVQCXQF43ZGL2V \
  | 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: a20427f7cb171a9cd602bc0bcde4cbd554a23e360f2643bd2a58a68f5e1f6eea

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5fac8118e207b39dc001de71e42abb4ae5f8dade9c670157083e00fda860c45c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2001-04-03T15:52:51Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5cf2f99d5bdfff2a0b0213d4ed3b3fb6d1bb1ebc2eb8478068378f6ecdab5ebb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0104056",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}