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Pith Number

pith:YB5KS5QH

pith:1998:YB5KS5QHLEIPB33XIDHYW2TF2E
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Yan Levin

arxiv:cond-mat/9802153 v1 · 1998-02-13 · cond-mat.soft · cond-mat.stat-mech

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YB5KS5QHLEIPB33XIDHYW2TF2E}

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Record completeness

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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.
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First computed 2026-05-18T01:39:31.111396Z
Builder pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature Pith Ed25519 (pith-v1-2026-05) · public key
Schema pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c07aa976075910f0ef7740cf8b6a65d11518e8f90b910d1867c730a0f8612b90

Aliases

arxiv: cond-mat/9802153 · arxiv_version: cond-mat/9802153v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.cond-mat/9802153 · pith_short_12: YB5KS5QHLEIP · pith_short_16: YB5KS5QHLEIPB33X · pith_short_8: YB5KS5QH
Agent API
Verify this Pith Number yourself
curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/YB5KS5QHLEIPB33XIDHYW2TF2E \
  | 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: c07aa976075910f0ef7740cf8b6a65d11518e8f90b910d1867c730a0f8612b90
Canonical record JSON
{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3a96a1077b53bbf99672e2aaa6c972ba9dfab6d5a1af1552fa3e879050f34826",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cond-mat.stat-mech"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "cond-mat.soft",
    "submitted_at": "1998-02-13T18:24:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "052e34d1476860f3ddf9c44eddac47d49280b0f256bca0ac5b01aed385fc0e04"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "cond-mat/9802153",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}