Pith Number

pith:YBBVZLXW

pith:2010:YBBVZLXW7JMQQ3MJGQVJVJSW3M

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"Instantaneous superluminality" in a bimetallic wire consisting of a superconducting aluminum wire plated with a thick copper covering

R. Y. Chiao

arxiv:1011.3185 v1 · 2010-11-14 · gr-qc

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YBBVZLXW7JMQQ3MJGQVJVJSW3M}

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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	2026-05-18T04:35:56.378212Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c0435caef6fa59086d89342a9aa656db398fc5fd91c4c2f615db679f8fae96c8

Aliases

arxiv: 1011.3185 · arxiv_version: 1011.3185v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1011.3185 · pith_short_12: YBBVZLXW7JMQ · pith_short_16: YBBVZLXW7JMQQ3MJ · pith_short_8: YBBVZLXW

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/YBBVZLXW7JMQQ3MJGQVJVJSW3M \
  | 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: c0435caef6fa59086d89342a9aa656db398fc5fd91c4c2f615db679f8fae96c8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1494c31602f0b21da345fdc8ce73552de4eaf2a397b1e70999d8c542404b2e14",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "2010-11-14T05:58:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c4587ef6ffea0a9e3f6936b2dedf26dcc0186af33cae564dc60cbeb25848567c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1011.3185",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}