Pith Number

pith:XTRBP5NA

pith:2018:XTRBP5NAUCHBSPYGAE64RX6QW3

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Branching of Hydraulic Cracks in Gas or Oil Shale with Closed Natural Fractures: How to Master Permeability

Esteban Rougier, Gowri Srinivasan, Hari Viswanathan, Hoang Nguyen, Huynjin Lee, Saeed Rahimi-Agham, Satish Karra, Viet-Tuan Chau, Weixin Li, Zdenek P. Bazant

arxiv:1812.11023 v1 · 2018-12-06 · physics.geo-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XTRBP5NAUCHBSPYGAE64RX6QW3}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-17T23:51:41.863205Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bce217f5a0a08e193f06013dc8dfd0b6eff95a1bd8aaa3d68d37fe9d0a02590c

Aliases

arxiv: 1812.11023 · arxiv_version: 1812.11023v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1812.11023 · pith_short_12: XTRBP5NAUCHB · pith_short_16: XTRBP5NAUCHBSPYG · pith_short_8: XTRBP5NA

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/XTRBP5NAUCHBSPYGAE64RX6QW3 \
  | 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: bce217f5a0a08e193f06013dc8dfd0b6eff95a1bd8aaa3d68d37fe9d0a02590c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "15a5c4cd2ac6089cb4eb113c6385e00cd9ac5d48380b116c1d958f773ac88131",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.geo-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2018-12-06T00:55:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "99cc343e0e9b131de6d97a3447382796d14ad3ddbd89d81c9995af04a1b249ae"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1812.11023",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}