Pith Number

pith:VBCWXNCP

pith:2017:VBCWXNCPR6BLQIB4KRXDUNVIRM

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A new multi line-cusp magnetic field plasma device (MPD) with variable magnetic field for fundamental plasma studies

A. D. Patel, M. Sharma, N. Ramasubramanian, P. K. Chattopadhyay, R. Ganesh

arxiv:1710.00182 v1 · 2017-09-30 · physics.plasm-ph

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:16:31.145993Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a8456bb44f8f82b8203c546e3a36a88b2f28d6c43893b0eb5973cf735e705cc7

Aliases

arxiv: 1710.00182 · arxiv_version: 1710.00182v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1710.00182 · pith_short_12: VBCWXNCPR6BL · pith_short_16: VBCWXNCPR6BLQIB4 · pith_short_8: VBCWXNCP

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VBCWXNCPR6BLQIB4KRXDUNVIRM \
  | 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: a8456bb44f8f82b8203c546e3a36a88b2f28d6c43893b0eb5973cf735e705cc7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "16cb55c69903022b56b0cf3bf450f587fa4580d14a594bdc183bede34d6c06ba",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.plasm-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-09-30T11:26:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ca691b6a2d058b72c2029ba6373d8f83228ee2eb69ab5fd3bf8f061cd5426fd9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1710.00182",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}