Pith Number

pith:EDJ52F4N

pith:2016:EDJ52F4NCUB5PPATQTS7YQIO56

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Seeding the m = 0 instability in dense plasma focus Z-pinches with a hollow anode

A. Link, A. Povilus, A. Schmidt, B. Shaw, C. Cooper, D. Higginson, J. Sears, J. X. Liu, K. Tummel, M. McMahon

arxiv:1610.09092 v1 · 2016-10-28 · physics.plasm-ph

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\pithnumber{EDJ52F4NCUB5PPATQTS7YQIO56}

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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	2026-05-18T01:00:59.174269Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

20d3dd178d1503d7bc1384e5fc410eefb7b955a4f22884a38ea4a6bacf1b52ad

Aliases

arxiv: 1610.09092 · arxiv_version: 1610.09092v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1610.09092 · pith_short_12: EDJ52F4NCUB5 · pith_short_16: EDJ52F4NCUB5PPAT · pith_short_8: EDJ52F4N

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/EDJ52F4NCUB5PPATQTS7YQIO56 \
  | 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: 20d3dd178d1503d7bc1384e5fc410eefb7b955a4f22884a38ea4a6bacf1b52ad

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "17ce78bdb0ac1d5edfc6428cf286a40a789e963a687c27872237540a6a0a0f4b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.plasm-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-10-28T06:36:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6af2daa2c620beabfa770364f9e964f19692d52c5008c7338b52a06a2cc13966"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1610.09092",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}