Pith Number

pith:VGNG5TTF

pith:2012:VGNG5TTFL7PLUHNUUIGSPNGRLQ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Physics of Granular Mechanics

Mario Liu, Yimin Jiang

arxiv:1206.2835 v1 · 2012-06-13 · cond-mat.soft

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VGNG5TTFL7PLUHNUUIGSPNGRLQ}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T03:53:43.010724Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a99a6ece655fdeba1db4a20d27b4d15c2dac2d8196c26b32674732121dd9afe9

Aliases

arxiv: 1206.2835 · arxiv_version: 1206.2835v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1206.2835 · pith_short_12: VGNG5TTFL7PL · pith_short_16: VGNG5TTFL7PLUHNU · pith_short_8: VGNG5TTF

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/VGNG5TTFL7PLUHNUUIGSPNGRLQ \
  | 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: a99a6ece655fdeba1db4a20d27b4d15c2dac2d8196c26b32674732121dd9afe9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "48432db558a65bc11f4a72a9619d655ee0905f8e7d3ea791ce86b0ec58733fae",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cond-mat.soft",
    "submitted_at": "2012-06-13T15:03:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "86cc6a3178b84f44269646183543f55a44308c5b2e8d7d756360c08a0883136e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1206.2835",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}