Pith Number

pith:YCRFNCWA

pith:1999:YCRFNCWAJVZ3C3G3FFJQVBDU6X

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Molecular ratchets - verification of the principle of detailed balance

K.L. Sebastian

arxiv:cond-mat/9908177 v1 · 1999-08-12 · cond-mat.stat-mech

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YCRFNCWAJVZ3C3G3FFJQVBDU6X}

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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	2026-05-18T01:39:28.482641Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c0a2568ac04d73b16cdb29530a8474f5c48cc6f3b4953a461fbd9972f3187f2d

Aliases

arxiv: cond-mat/9908177 · arxiv_version: cond-mat/9908177v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.cond-mat/9908177 · pith_short_12: YCRFNCWAJVZ3 · pith_short_16: YCRFNCWAJVZ3C3G3 · pith_short_8: YCRFNCWA

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/YCRFNCWAJVZ3C3G3FFJQVBDU6X \
  | 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: c0a2568ac04d73b16cdb29530a8474f5c48cc6f3b4953a461fbd9972f3187f2d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2c770943a8faa3335b9efd989e041f829bcae939f37319f147e93d55614a2469",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "cond-mat.stat-mech",
    "submitted_at": "1999-08-12T17:21:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cd0b17e099667bd57435c19f453f54630a6ed9e85f85f65cbd71e761bc4de635"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "cond-mat/9908177",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}