Pith Number

pith:XTE6CMLK

pith:2025:XTE6CMLK3WU7G7ZRISW5GRIALB

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Aikaterini Vriza, Henry Chan, Mathew J. Cherukara, Michael H. Prince, Tao Zhou

arxiv:2509.00098 v1 · 2025-08-27 · physics.ins-det · cond-mat.mtrl-sci

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XTE6CMLK3WU7G7ZRISW5GRIALB}

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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	2026-07-05T12:02:09.405010Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bcc9e1316adda9f37f3144add34500586a54e47d68ab72408778e36126d2fc14

Aliases

arxiv: 2509.00098 · arxiv_version: 2509.00098v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2509.00098 · pith_short_12: XTE6CMLK3WU7 · pith_short_16: XTE6CMLK3WU7G7ZR · pith_short_8: XTE6CMLK

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/XTE6CMLK3WU7G7ZRISW5GRIALB \
  | 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: bcc9e1316adda9f37f3144add34500586a54e47d68ab72408778e36126d2fc14

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a0217f2b07cc6eb83661f116f12f7cf1ca946f55908163e76759cea3d148fda9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cond-mat.mtrl-sci"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.ins-det",
    "submitted_at": "2025-08-27T16:40:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ee02faa3a5ce394ba7ac44fcb358c81b8918b0b2b390d7c6e3b02814fa5b13b4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2509.00098",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}