Pith Number

pith:VVUBBWOA

pith:2011:VVUBBWOAVHHOWAVCV5R7PRFWCD

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Electron density fluctuations accelerate the branching of streamer discharges in air

A. Luque, U. Ebert

arxiv:1102.1287 v1 · 2011-02-07 · physics.plasm-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VVUBBWOAVHHOWAVCV5R7PRFWCD}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T04:07:19.782959Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ad6810d9c0a9ceeb02a2af63f7c4b610db0256107bc3dca983881a05a4b9bb40

Aliases

arxiv: 1102.1287 · arxiv_version: 1102.1287v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1102.1287 · pith_short_12: VVUBBWOAVHHO · pith_short_16: VVUBBWOAVHHOWAVC · pith_short_8: VVUBBWOA

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/VVUBBWOAVHHOWAVCV5R7PRFWCD \
  | 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: ad6810d9c0a9ceeb02a2af63f7c4b610db0256107bc3dca983881a05a4b9bb40

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0187b28fc590e9687c4f731c83868df04137a8c23c76037d268b4d97cecf1d43",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.plasm-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2011-02-07T12:13:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "eff42b2e9caf75e3575c40b70482ae59f4d3ee679ab7e1da43a5134f2ee95d23"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1102.1287",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}