Pith Number

pith:YLA72SAM

pith:2015:YLA72SAMCP3BBJUSSPAREF4FA3

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What is the orientation of the tip in a scanning tunneling microscope?

G\'abor M\'andi, Gilberto Teobaldi, Kriszti\'an Palot\'as

arxiv:1501.06538 v1 · 2015-01-26 · cond-mat.mtrl-sci · cond-mat.mes-hall · physics.chem-ph · physics.comp-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YLA72SAMCP3BBJUSSPAREF4FA3}

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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	2026-05-18T02:23:26.137737Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c2c1fd480c13f610a69293c112178506fb309f923115e566296665c47b3e9ad2

Aliases

arxiv: 1501.06538 · arxiv_version: 1501.06538v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1501.06538 · pith_short_12: YLA72SAMCP3B · pith_short_16: YLA72SAMCP3BBJUS · pith_short_8: YLA72SAM

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/YLA72SAMCP3BBJUSSPAREF4FA3 \
  | 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: c2c1fd480c13f610a69293c112178506fb309f923115e566296665c47b3e9ad2

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "96954c54a2db6ba06525cd602ee422f0669729901013de7405798c39d8a7daea",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cond-mat.mes-hall",
      "physics.chem-ph",
      "physics.comp-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cond-mat.mtrl-sci",
    "submitted_at": "2015-01-26T19:42:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "af6486f6e805980d33848a01a8598eb3df5e2247102e73898fafcc183a8efcec"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1501.06538",
    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}