Pith Number

pith:33GTM4GK

pith:2015:33GTM4GKXLQRZPTOQ4KOBDSAUK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Revisiting the plasma sheath - dust in plasma sheath

G. C. Das, M. P. Bora, R. Deka

arxiv:1512.08642 v2 · 2015-12-29 · physics.plasm-ph · astro-ph.EP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{33GTM4GKXLQRZPTOQ4KOBDSAUK}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T01:15:43.197476Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

decd3670cabae11cbe6e8714e08e40a293056787bf4d172512b885cca9eda21b

Aliases

arxiv: 1512.08642 · arxiv_version: 1512.08642v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1512.08642 · pith_short_12: 33GTM4GKXLQR · pith_short_16: 33GTM4GKXLQRZPTO · pith_short_8: 33GTM4GK

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/33GTM4GKXLQRZPTOQ4KOBDSAUK \
  | 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: decd3670cabae11cbe6e8714e08e40a293056787bf4d172512b885cca9eda21b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1d8b892eaff14fb171c785294d7748d0d327bdae9ca66a774e120dddd8f08c84",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.EP"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.plasm-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2015-12-29T10:04:17Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6cc9ad6e6ba639805cc2a7a4a2dc3b28c3a8fe873efd52cd74d29aa9ed568fb9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1512.08642",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}