Pith Number

pith:WK2PW55Q

pith:2003:WK2PW55QVELXATBC2ZXRNTA3TZ

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An Electrostatic Wave

Kirk T. McDonald

arxiv:physics/0312025 v1 · 2003-12-03 · physics.plasm-ph · physics.class-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WK2PW55QVELXATBC2ZXRNTA3TZ}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-07-04T14:44:05.961954Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b2b4fb77b0a917704c22d66f16cc1b9e7bb04645b3ca1010e4cc77c535f5ed6b

Aliases

arxiv: physics/0312025 · arxiv_version: physics/0312025v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.physics/0312025 · pith_short_12: WK2PW55QVELX · pith_short_16: WK2PW55QVELXATBC · pith_short_8: WK2PW55Q

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/WK2PW55QVELXATBC2ZXRNTA3TZ \
  | 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: b2b4fb77b0a917704c22d66f16cc1b9e7bb04645b3ca1010e4cc77c535f5ed6b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8a6868d1ce3761dee568574071c9eb6f33df0e429fed6e056b7bd81f51f8b7f4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.class-ph"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "physics.plasm-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2003-12-03T16:26:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "60c18157686b509f02aa8510fd1b9a7cfa6c43b8d056de581f94aa052ede5b3e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "physics/0312025",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}