Pith Number

pith:XWVNTV5H

pith:1999:XWVNTV5HFWMQIL5GJDP3WWLMN5

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Coalescence of Liquid Drops

Howard A. Stone, Jens Eggers, John R. Lister

arxiv:physics/9903017 v1 · 1999-03-10 · physics.flu-dyn

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XWVNTV5HFWMQIL5GJDP3WWLMN5}

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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	2026-05-18T00:44:20.037912Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bdaad9d7a72d99042fa648dfbb596c6f43be88a41dcac3186f2d9653788fb2a5

Aliases

arxiv: physics/9903017 · arxiv_version: physics/9903017v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.physics/9903017 · pith_short_12: XWVNTV5HFWMQ · pith_short_16: XWVNTV5HFWMQIL5G · pith_short_8: XWVNTV5H

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/XWVNTV5HFWMQIL5GJDP3WWLMN5 \
  | 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: bdaad9d7a72d99042fa648dfbb596c6f43be88a41dcac3186f2d9653788fb2a5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6be8fc377e0e321cfaeea606569bf7c825770b2bbd100046a7ca9e8b8e426e4f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "physics.flu-dyn",
    "submitted_at": "1999-03-10T09:38:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0ab13c3b668e13a758582f525d3dd354f57ad3406782bf770ed46bbd31f144a5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "physics/9903017",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}