Pith Number

pith:BXKORZSB

pith:2009:BXKORZSB27Q76KNVHTBD5CFMAA

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Nucleation of cracks in a brittle sheet

Cristiano L. Dias, Daniel Vernon, Jens Kroger, Martin Grant

arxiv:0906.2574 v1 · 2009-06-14 · cond-mat.stat-mech

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BXKORZSB27Q76KNVHTBD5CFMAA}

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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	2026-05-18T02:13:20.217852Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0dd4e8e641d7e1ff29b53cc23e88ac0005c16730caeb5ca245bfbf791c713ab2

Aliases

arxiv: 0906.2574 · arxiv_version: 0906.2574v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0906.2574 · pith_short_12: BXKORZSB27Q7 · pith_short_16: BXKORZSB27Q76KNV · pith_short_8: BXKORZSB

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/BXKORZSB27Q76KNVHTBD5CFMAA \
  | 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: 0dd4e8e641d7e1ff29b53cc23e88ac0005c16730caeb5ca245bfbf791c713ab2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "56221bae64f4c29abf2548bf4d0225b8d962fca96ee395fb4adda5c0aa605402",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cond-mat.stat-mech",
    "submitted_at": "2009-06-14T22:03:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8ce04ff9df3bc88c21960c54ccc372b2ab3e4678201fbe481657e541709f5fa7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0906.2574",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}