Pith Number

pith:VAB6SBNV

pith:2005:VAB6SBNVY4D6HN5H7N5CJGLG55

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Distributed versus tachocline dynamos

Axel Brandenburg (Nordita)

arxiv:astro-ph/0512638 v1 · 2005-12-29 · astro-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VAB6SBNVY4D6HN5H7N5CJGLG55}

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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	2026-07-04T14:51:28.978560Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a803e905b5c707e3b7a7fb7a249966ef583b6fdfdaba93414e00e3bc39d993e3

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0512638 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0512638v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0512638 · pith_short_12: VAB6SBNVY4D6 · pith_short_16: VAB6SBNVY4D6HN5H · pith_short_8: VAB6SBNV

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/VAB6SBNVY4D6HN5H7N5CJGLG55 \
  | 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: a803e905b5c707e3b7a7fb7a249966ef583b6fdfdaba93414e00e3bc39d993e3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "638a2cb61ca8cccef820825bd2860b35bab2d0b2d75e438a8d95ae65dd470e76",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2005-12-29T09:13:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "55dbf5be6e2f2baa147f185e9abef5f03f4bdae252c54d6d5dd4a01689115f6f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0512638",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}