Pith Number

pith:VBKBX3NF

pith:2014:VBKBX3NFUPLUBM2THN6Q4QNRXC

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Rossby wave instability does not require sharp resistivity gradients

C. McNally, N. Turner, W. Lyra

arxiv:1410.8092 v2 · 2014-10-29 · astro-ph.EP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VBKBX3NFUPLUBM2THN6Q4QNRXC}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T02:29:02.428654Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a8541beda5a3d740b3533b7d0e41b1b8b50678a3d0d0c67e117710e6fca2faed

Aliases

arxiv: 1410.8092 · arxiv_version: 1410.8092v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1410.8092 · pith_short_12: VBKBX3NFUPLU · pith_short_16: VBKBX3NFUPLUBM2T · pith_short_8: VBKBX3NF

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/VBKBX3NFUPLUBM2THN6Q4QNRXC \
  | 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: a8541beda5a3d740b3533b7d0e41b1b8b50678a3d0d0c67e117710e6fca2faed

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b16415d91605b9686b6114a231f66911148b7810d8e473a16e8286eced5a3b8b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2014-10-29T18:43:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "455c7b87893a15e1ce71c81cda55b92033041601202052a9b843cc27d5ae2843"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1410.8092",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}