Pith Number

pith:V5CA5R3V

pith:2003:V5CA5R3VPSMVEFDBJEP4AMMPMD

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Plasma sheet structure in the magnetotail: kinetic simulation and comparison with satellite observations

Giovanni Lapenta, J. U. Brackbill, Paolo Ricci

arxiv:physics/0308034 v3 · 2003-08-08 · physics.plasm-ph · physics.space-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{V5CA5R3VPSMVEFDBJEP4AMMPMD}

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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	2026-05-18T01:38:08.767923Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

af440ec7757c99521461491fc0318f60f1355c59a866282140faa0e9890d487b

Aliases

arxiv: physics/0308034 · arxiv_version: physics/0308034v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.physics/0308034 · pith_short_12: V5CA5R3VPSMV · pith_short_16: V5CA5R3VPSMVEFDB · pith_short_8: V5CA5R3V

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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/V5CA5R3VPSMVEFDBJEP4AMMPMD \
  | 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: af440ec7757c99521461491fc0318f60f1355c59a866282140faa0e9890d487b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "063ff471ae5524b63cbe90ec8c083f91892532e891735eca928fce07428d9586",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.space-ph"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "physics.plasm-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2003-08-08T19:55:26Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6f6418658a569dc60a66fbfc2916b0648d9b7b6f118752a2fe718fe9e58171a0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "physics/0308034",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}