Pith Number

pith:UKJV7W4X

pith:2012:UKJV7W4XBALP4B2ZD2CWDYOC4G

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Reflections on the nature of genius: on the 300th anniversary of Mikhail Lomonosov (1711-1765)

V. Shiltsev (Fermilab)

arxiv:1205.1787 v2 · 2012-05-08 · physics.hist-ph · physics.acc-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{UKJV7W4XBALP4B2ZD2CWDYOC4G}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T03:55:46.217005Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a2935fdb970816fe07591e8561e1c2e18300d45a5efd92f0d4e41bb7ae2e80be

Aliases

arxiv: 1205.1787 · arxiv_version: 1205.1787v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1205.1787 · pith_short_12: UKJV7W4XBALP · pith_short_16: UKJV7W4XBALP4B2Z · pith_short_8: UKJV7W4X

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/UKJV7W4XBALP4B2ZD2CWDYOC4G \
  | 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: a2935fdb970816fe07591e8561e1c2e18300d45a5efd92f0d4e41bb7ae2e80be

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7922940b3837363747956c1a6937b9250114774df326c458ceba7ca232e9dd78",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.acc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.hist-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-05-08T19:30:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "99508b714af29d1a94d0ea9f3e30b864eb2884712f7f4c9e7441a3dc7403de33"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1205.1787",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}