Pith Number

pith:WXILW3IU

pith:2011:WXILW3IUPTVXBPMMYN2WB4OY2X

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Metacinnabar ({\beta}-HgS): a strong 3D topological insulator with highly anisotropic surface states

Franc\c{o}is Virot, Jeroen van den Brink, Manuel Richter, Roland Hayn

arxiv:1105.0501 v2 · 2011-05-03 · cond-mat.mtrl-sci

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WXILW3IUPTVXBPMMYN2WB4OY2X}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T03:39:42.021205Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b5d0bb6d147ceb70bd8cc37560f1d8d5d518abedb2f04092eaa506e0caeb5825

Aliases

arxiv: 1105.0501 · arxiv_version: 1105.0501v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1105.0501 · pith_short_12: WXILW3IUPTVX · pith_short_16: WXILW3IUPTVXBPMM · pith_short_8: WXILW3IU

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/WXILW3IUPTVXBPMMYN2WB4OY2X \
  | 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: b5d0bb6d147ceb70bd8cc37560f1d8d5d518abedb2f04092eaa506e0caeb5825

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "29764e42aa0f94a6d7246c0eba7c3e7a4172f13f2aedc5e440742438d5af19d5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cond-mat.mtrl-sci",
    "submitted_at": "2011-05-03T07:42:17Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "31db06b5fb7182a83ba72959faf8b4e203bda537db9969046f41b7a5509a524a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1105.0501",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}