Pith Number

pith:GIBW2WXQ

pith:2018:GIBW2WXQMVA35IKKCA4BEBZLZW

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The Physical Foundation of the Reconnection Electric Field

C. Norgren, J. Burch, K. J. Genestreti, L.-J. Chen, M. Hesse, N. Bessho, P. Tenfjord, S. Wang, T. D. Phan, T. Moretto, Y.-H. Liu

arxiv:1801.01090 v2 · 2018-01-03 · physics.space-ph · physics.plasm-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{GIBW2WXQMVA35IKKCA4BEBZLZW}

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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	2026-05-18T00:19:21.924557Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

32036d5af06541bea14a103812072bcdac0c690e2279d0b551b92c18eb0f1572

Aliases

arxiv: 1801.01090 · arxiv_version: 1801.01090v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1801.01090 · pith_short_12: GIBW2WXQMVA3 · pith_short_16: GIBW2WXQMVA35IKK · pith_short_8: GIBW2WXQ

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/GIBW2WXQMVA35IKKCA4BEBZLZW \
  | 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: 32036d5af06541bea14a103812072bcdac0c690e2279d0b551b92c18eb0f1572

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "dd0cb9c07c58f9e8c7c1a574fe161a2d8ad2b60555dc4cc4583d94b43a3dfab1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.plasm-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.space-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2018-01-03T17:35:55Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "98cf26c2bd5907240fa0ecef72da6ec7a144285383dd44659a9ed246db223baa"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1801.01090",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}