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pith:Z2DGUIXC

pith:2017:Z2DGUIXCVBGZKRVSZHKYPJ436Z

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A magnification-based multi-asperity (MBMA) model of rough contact where the Greenwood-Williamson and Persson theories meet

Benben Ma, Xu Guo, Yichao Zhu

arxiv:1712.06264 v1 · 2017-12-18 · physics.app-ph · cond-mat.soft

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\pithnumber{Z2DGUIXCVBGZKRVSZHKYPJ436Z}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:27:48.034484Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ce866a22e2a84d9546b2c9d587a79bf64c5757a87eea64823c3c7c99425fa5c3

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.06264 · arxiv_version: 1712.06264v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.06264 · pith_short_12: Z2DGUIXCVBGZ · pith_short_16: Z2DGUIXCVBGZKRVS · pith_short_8: Z2DGUIXC

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/Z2DGUIXCVBGZKRVSZHKYPJ436Z \
  | 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: ce866a22e2a84d9546b2c9d587a79bf64c5757a87eea64823c3c7c99425fa5c3

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cond-mat.soft"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.app-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-18T06:34:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "64b73e5a1853191876088a75455c6c91b923f57fe642ed9a083863fdc4a635dc"
  },
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  "source": {
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  }
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