Pith Number

pith:WZRVNYMQ

pith:2012:WZRVNYMQGM7ZE54KK6PM7OBOPY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Can surface cracks and unipolar arcs explain breakdown and gradient limits?

Jim Norem, Zeke Insepov

arxiv:1208.0847 v1 · 2012-08-03 · physics.acc-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WZRVNYMQGM7ZE54KK6PM7OBOPY}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T03:49:21.341642Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b66356e190333f92778a579ecfb82e7e158826d07546946a64c64e569a03c99e

Aliases

arxiv: 1208.0847 · arxiv_version: 1208.0847v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1208.0847 · pith_short_12: WZRVNYMQGM7Z · pith_short_16: WZRVNYMQGM7ZE54K · pith_short_8: WZRVNYMQ

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/WZRVNYMQGM7ZE54KK6PM7OBOPY \
  | 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: b66356e190333f92778a579ecfb82e7e158826d07546946a64c64e569a03c99e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5b29a8b05ca3842f13ef52c5e19ee2145682e8dfe14e98bd111027dc8ef837e9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.acc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-08-03T21:07:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "be4848f5ab09f5f85a53ad684220470dfd6fad7b5af02d520de9b58eb342a58e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1208.0847",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}