Pith Number

pith:VZC55M4Y

pith:2012:VZC55M4YYIDA2JTD7IOMTWRJT6

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On the breaking of a plasma wave in a thermal plasma: I. The structure of the density singularity

Alexander S. Pirozhkov, Carl B. Schroeder, Eric Esarey, Francesco Califano, Francesco Pegoraro, James K. Koga, Masaki Kando, Sergei V. Bulanov, Stepan S. Bulanov, Tatsufumi Nakamura, Timur Zh. Esirkepov

arxiv:1202.1903 v2 · 2012-02-09 · physics.plasm-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VZC55M4YYIDA2JTD7IOMTWRJT6}

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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	2026-05-18T01:58:31.972497Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ae45deb398c2060d2663fa1cc9da299f8fe8e13221415021f0118b7d9a8ff61e

Aliases

arxiv: 1202.1903 · arxiv_version: 1202.1903v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1202.1903 · pith_short_12: VZC55M4YYIDA · pith_short_16: VZC55M4YYIDA2JTD · pith_short_8: VZC55M4Y

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VZC55M4YYIDA2JTD7IOMTWRJT6 \
  | 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: ae45deb398c2060d2663fa1cc9da299f8fe8e13221415021f0118b7d9a8ff61e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "40e72a71a915b4925bcf487fcf6457c65fbe5afa28706b77ff0af48117b2ffe2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.plasm-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-02-09T07:59:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7547c9f51e356f1e46e2dd2e37367cccd96742d0b8b6a56dd176266886442a95"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1202.1903",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}