Pith Number

pith:ACCS6GX3

pith:1999:ACCS6GX3YW65K3RVQM63NF2CYV

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A simple scaling law between the total energy of a free atom and its atomic number

W. T. Geng

arxiv:physics/9912003 v1 · 1999-12-02 · physics.chem-ph · physics.atom-ph · physics.comp-ph · physics.pop-ph · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ACCS6GX3YW65K3RVQM63NF2CYV}

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Record completeness

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T01:05:14.381093Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

00852f1afbc5bdd56e35833db69742c56d960268eea80344441b266edac53e32

Aliases

arxiv: physics/9912003 · arxiv_version: physics/9912003v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.physics/9912003 · pith_short_12: ACCS6GX3YW65 · pith_short_16: ACCS6GX3YW65K3RV · pith_short_8: ACCS6GX3

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/ACCS6GX3YW65K3RVQM63NF2CYV \
  | 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: 00852f1afbc5bdd56e35833db69742c56d960268eea80344441b266edac53e32

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ab937c5baa99ce5a2498b1897aab51926bae8146788f5b2031377101b9abfb61",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.atom-ph",
      "physics.comp-ph",
      "physics.pop-ph",
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "physics.chem-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1999-12-02T00:00:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "63a0f0b3e62b34684997e9f1113cf31522e95d71079ac2b424f39601b776651c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "physics/9912003",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}