Pith Number

pith:ZYZBNHCM

pith:2019:ZYZBNHCMJRKHCX7KQLJAHQQT7E

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Biophysics-based critique of the assisted discharge mechanism hypothesis

James C. Weaver, Julie V. Stern, Kyle C. Smith, Thiruvallur R. Gowrishankar

arxiv:1904.00559 v1 · 2019-04-01 · physics.bio-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZYZBNHCMJRKHCX7KQLJAHQQT7E}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-17T23:49:48.084249Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ce32169c4c4c54715fea82d203c213f91f5a9265cb857f68d64ddfa42c7524ad

Aliases

arxiv: 1904.00559 · arxiv_version: 1904.00559v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1904.00559 · pith_short_12: ZYZBNHCMJRKH · pith_short_16: ZYZBNHCMJRKHCX7K · pith_short_8: ZYZBNHCM

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/ZYZBNHCMJRKHCX7KQLJAHQQT7E \
  | 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: ce32169c4c4c54715fea82d203c213f91f5a9265cb857f68d64ddfa42c7524ad

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7e2e41a9408162c33470618930ebd3936bdcce8d28d3c304d59253357af8ddf1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.bio-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2019-04-01T04:36:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "08e0a06da5c2f37b3e2521898b1de2e911efba78e23e2489bd77e67aec29c14b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1904.00559",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}