Pith Number

pith:4PTJDOQL

pith:2008:4PTJDOQLUL7AEY6GEBWUGI3PDW

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Sylvester's question and the Random Acceleration Process

G. Schehr, H.J. Hilhorst, P. Calka

arxiv:0807.4072 v2 · 2008-07-25 · cond-mat.stat-mech

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4PTJDOQLUL7AEY6GEBWUGI3PDW}

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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	2026-05-18T04:41:53.976059Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e3e691ba0ba2fe0263c6206d43236f1d8c5454d71f4b23966043ab28b57a2a2e

Aliases

arxiv: 0807.4072 · arxiv_version: 0807.4072v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0807.4072 · pith_short_12: 4PTJDOQLUL7A · pith_short_16: 4PTJDOQLUL7AEY6G · pith_short_8: 4PTJDOQL

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/4PTJDOQLUL7AEY6GEBWUGI3PDW \
  | 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: e3e691ba0ba2fe0263c6206d43236f1d8c5454d71f4b23966043ab28b57a2a2e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "87bb07e33d69a76cd07eb08bc57485a94c96150034946c1a175a9794c76918cb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cond-mat.stat-mech",
    "submitted_at": "2008-07-25T11:35:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e4fa6cfed1b011e5e7c4a93f3d8a1662835d5a83275b78d71f469e2d6f88c932"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0807.4072",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}