Pith Number

pith:Z6WWC465

pith:2008:Z6WWC465CUMX4FZIJBIFYCYSM3

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The dual role of shear in large-scale dynamos

Axel Brandenburg

arxiv:0808.0959 v1 · 2008-08-07 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Z6WWC465CUMX4FZIJBIFYCYSM3}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-07-04T15:13:28.737284Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cfad6173dd15197e172848505c0b1266e32413aba746b3ccda2e468059f326b5

Aliases

arxiv: 0808.0959 · arxiv_version: 0808.0959v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0808.0959 · pith_short_12: Z6WWC465CUMX · pith_short_16: Z6WWC465CUMX4FZI · pith_short_8: Z6WWC465

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/Z6WWC465CUMX4FZIJBIFYCYSM3 \
  | 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: cfad6173dd15197e172848505c0b1266e32413aba746b3ccda2e468059f326b5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a877add5c1b295224d478f98c9fe8764d687e1210bc87079aeba434e3251e9ef",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2008-08-07T06:42:56Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5e2f4fbfb4b9666ff4bd3387f218114910daf216408e396340f3aa3a0ac6bc1e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0808.0959",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}