Pith Number

pith:XZW2BBJC

pith:2012:XZW2BBJCQ2GYJ3JFK3M4AGJXMW

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Buoyant Magnetic Loops Generated by Global Convective Dynamo Action

A. Sacha Brun, Benjamin P. Brown, Juri Toomre, Mark S. Miesch, Nicholas J. Nelson

arxiv:1212.5612 v1 · 2012-12-21 · astro-ph.SR · physics.flu-dyn

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XZW2BBJCQ2GYJ3JFK3M4AGJXMW}

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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	2026-05-18T01:52:29.011817Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

be6da08522868d84ed2556d9c0193765b91d6a6d752f0674a861cba76ad1ed88

Aliases

arxiv: 1212.5612 · arxiv_version: 1212.5612v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1212.5612 · pith_short_12: XZW2BBJCQ2GY · pith_short_16: XZW2BBJCQ2GYJ3JF · pith_short_8: XZW2BBJC

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/XZW2BBJCQ2GYJ3JFK3M4AGJXMW \
  | 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: be6da08522868d84ed2556d9c0193765b91d6a6d752f0674a861cba76ad1ed88

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a913d84304eca5d4380db412fdaef4fafeb4c783cdb84e48b11919003169a7e9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.flu-dyn"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2012-12-21T21:18:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2273ad3ef53a83280c2583b11a4127ea7110d36ca9c4669b63450f11e2bbeaeb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1212.5612",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}