Pith Number

pith:4VFYZ2KT

pith:1997:4VFYZ2KTSBZIGSPF4EIKJOI2YX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Role of Metastable States in Phase Ordering Dynamics

Astronomy, Edinburgh, M. E. Cates (1) ((1) Department of Physics, R. M. L. Evans (1), The University of Edinburgh, U.K.), W. C. K. Poon (1)

arxiv:cond-mat/9701110 v2 · 1997-01-15 · cond-mat.soft

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4VFYZ2KTSBZIGSPF4EIKJOI2YX}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T01:07:08.758347Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e54b8ce95390728349e5e110a4b91ac5d9331e55aa6a4537181865cf257d39f9

Aliases

arxiv: cond-mat/9701110 · arxiv_version: cond-mat/9701110v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.cond-mat/9701110 · pith_short_12: 4VFYZ2KTSBZI · pith_short_16: 4VFYZ2KTSBZIGSPF · pith_short_8: 4VFYZ2KT

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/4VFYZ2KTSBZIGSPF4EIKJOI2YX \
  | 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: e54b8ce95390728349e5e110a4b91ac5d9331e55aa6a4537181865cf257d39f9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "594cd81ed32d094ddfb295fab3f96c36f85d5fad2fc5f8b3c9179d59750a392c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "cond-mat.soft",
    "submitted_at": "1997-01-15T19:23:30Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3c4a8ef02a5a04c3546e000992f07f80f89f33493ec9ef640ccaa7624dfdb615"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "cond-mat/9701110",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}