Pith Number

pith:XNIDY3EZ

pith:2017:XNIDY3EZ4VCPLTPPQL7AJA2T7B

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Theory and simulation of anode spots in low pressure plasmas

Benjamin Yee, Brett Scheiner, Edward Barnat, Matthew Hopkins, Scott Baalrud

arxiv:1708.02661 v1 · 2017-08-08 · physics.plasm-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XNIDY3EZ4VCPLTPPQL7AJA2T7B}

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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	2026-05-18T00:28:53.114895Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bb503c6c99e544f5cdef82fe048353f8546acfab7c7041e06f6ea6dc670fc9d5

Aliases

arxiv: 1708.02661 · arxiv_version: 1708.02661v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.02661 · pith_short_12: XNIDY3EZ4VCP · pith_short_16: XNIDY3EZ4VCPLTPP · pith_short_8: XNIDY3EZ

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/XNIDY3EZ4VCPLTPPQL7AJA2T7B \
  | 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: bb503c6c99e544f5cdef82fe048353f8546acfab7c7041e06f6ea6dc670fc9d5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7c31a6ec853a9d9a9f0adf34035bb0b19aee4ee77818116eaf3bb974c71e16ab",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.plasm-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-08T21:52:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "43d1253a513b047b5a0c6f27064bb48fca5fbbd61de784a69c5c3227d4dcffa5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1708.02661",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}