Pith Number

pith:VA2DQXOY

pith:2012:VA2DQXOYM7FFCYCGT2S5SGIZDS

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Do hierarchical structures assemble best via hierarchical pathways?

Stephen Whitelam, Thomas K. Haxton

arxiv:1211.3763 v1 · 2012-11-15 · cond-mat.soft · cond-mat.mes-hall · cond-mat.mtrl-sci · cond-mat.stat-mech

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VA2DQXOYM7FFCYCGT2S5SGIZDS}

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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	2026-05-18T02:54:56.429456Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a834385dd867ca5160469ea5d919191cad8eedcef76b80c6f407b3997a915e5c

Aliases

arxiv: 1211.3763 · arxiv_version: 1211.3763v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1211.3763 · pith_short_12: VA2DQXOYM7FF · pith_short_16: VA2DQXOYM7FFCYCG · pith_short_8: VA2DQXOY

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VA2DQXOYM7FFCYCGT2S5SGIZDS \
  | 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: a834385dd867ca5160469ea5d919191cad8eedcef76b80c6f407b3997a915e5c

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cond-mat.mes-hall",
      "cond-mat.mtrl-sci",
      "cond-mat.stat-mech"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cond-mat.soft",
    "submitted_at": "2012-11-15T21:50:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cb50224db8ec64ad24d4b049a6f595fe56bb772d98902d4406825078db11e602"
  },
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  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}