Pith Number

pith:VVWFKYDB

pith:2014:VVWFKYDBLDPMSRUQR6U3VSBVPM

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Nature of the Wiggle Instability of Galactic Spiral Shocks

Jeong-Gyu Kim, Woong-Tae Kim, Yonghwi Kim

arxiv:1405.5874 v1 · 2014-05-22 · astro-ph.GA

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\pithnumber{VVWFKYDBLDPMSRUQR6U3VSBVPM}

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:43:07.329671Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ad6c55606158dec946908fa9bac8357b0e860394448211ac16113dc313390b11

Aliases

arxiv: 1405.5874 · arxiv_version: 1405.5874v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1405.5874 · pith_short_12: VVWFKYDBLDPM · pith_short_16: VVWFKYDBLDPMSRUQ · pith_short_8: VVWFKYDB

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VVWFKYDBLDPMSRUQR6U3VSBVPM \
  | 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: ad6c55606158dec946908fa9bac8357b0e860394448211ac16113dc313390b11

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "20eba939a8ce54888ff60cd4908f82ff800c2a13e09973aa29eb79bd8f421d09",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2014-05-22T20:00:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c90cfbf6e8754651a2aa47788168c4e670647879e5f72c57213a8423f0a3f587"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1405.5874",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}