Pith Number

pith:W6N2D6IY

pith:2002:W6N2D6IYXQ5LGPFBOKGNDLJ45M

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The tortuous behavior of lightning

Francisco Vera

arxiv:nlin/0206011 v1 · 2002-06-10 · nlin.PS · nlin.AO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{W6N2D6IYXQ5LGPFBOKGNDLJ45M}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-07-04T14:41:43.248474Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b79ba1f918bc3ab33ca1728cd1ad3ceb3f2ce6add62352af0a74414321dd4017

Aliases

arxiv: nlin/0206011 · arxiv_version: nlin/0206011v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.nlin/0206011 · pith_short_12: W6N2D6IYXQ5L · pith_short_16: W6N2D6IYXQ5LGPFB · pith_short_8: W6N2D6IY

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/W6N2D6IYXQ5LGPFBOKGNDLJ45M \
  | 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: b79ba1f918bc3ab33ca1728cd1ad3ceb3f2ce6add62352af0a74414321dd4017

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0f9672feeb1a86c927126f34bbd21ecd767f2384739b14ba2da395c23bb59551",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "nlin.AO"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "nlin.PS",
    "submitted_at": "2002-06-10T21:20:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1397e5b1c09d802149f6d9006dde37f09fc1c447fcbdc9fa1beeae01b667c149"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "nlin/0206011",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}