Pith Number

pith:VPPY7MA5

pith:2018:VPPY7MA5I5EZ6BKDMWW5S5TRUI

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The deteriorating effect of plasma density fluctuations on microwave beam quality

Alf K\"ohn, Antti Snicker, Craig C. Petty, Eberhard Holzhauer, Emanuele Poli, Hannes Weber, Jarrod B. Leddy, Kenneth W. Gentle, Lorenzo Guidi, Matthew B. Thomas, Max E. Austin, Michael W. Brookman, Omar Maj, Rob J. La Haye, Roddy G. L. Vann, Terry L. Rhodes

arxiv:1805.09594 v1 · 2018-05-24 · physics.plasm-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VPPY7MA5I5EZ6BKDMWW5S5TRUI}

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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	2026-05-17T23:47:31.060713Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

abdf8fb01d47499f054365add97671a23d83bc801781ab0ed535445890189833

Aliases

arxiv: 1805.09594 · arxiv_version: 1805.09594v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1805.09594 · pith_short_12: VPPY7MA5I5EZ · pith_short_16: VPPY7MA5I5EZ6BKD · pith_short_8: VPPY7MA5

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/VPPY7MA5I5EZ6BKDMWW5S5TRUI \
  | 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: abdf8fb01d47499f054365add97671a23d83bc801781ab0ed535445890189833

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "03b99e05a6a8d8607e69446d59eb93242961365ee4d80c25faf2f9051989653f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.plasm-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2018-05-24T10:37:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c812d2ce32c67c0136907041d6d20dc91d5211af9ccd99b811f82e1e3cf5673b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1805.09594",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}