Pith Number

pith:HL2JXBDB

pith:2011:HL2JXBDBLWLZJ543YOBCY2O2VM

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Intuitive calculation of the relativistic Rayleigh-Taylor instability linear growth rate

A Bret

arxiv:1104.0626 v1 · 2011-04-04 · astro-ph.HE · physics.flu-dyn · physics.plasm-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HL2JXBDBLWLZJ543YOBCY2O2VM}

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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	2026-05-18T02:02:38.349902Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3af49b84615d9794f79bc3822c69daab0f0abeeb4c0f989741bed54e85c21eb3

Aliases

arxiv: 1104.0626 · arxiv_version: 1104.0626v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1104.0626 · pith_short_12: HL2JXBDBLWLZ · pith_short_16: HL2JXBDBLWLZJ543 · pith_short_8: HL2JXBDB

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/HL2JXBDBLWLZJ543YOBCY2O2VM \
  | 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: 3af49b84615d9794f79bc3822c69daab0f0abeeb4c0f989741bed54e85c21eb3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d67f3a2b5a6f663ca2a0e4ec3d422b3c370dc88c28f8ee7e176f1f1c37ccac69",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.flu-dyn",
      "physics.plasm-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2011-04-04T16:55:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2a7c4de7051eefa14d2cf91af6817bbdf37b3c02e41cf006f016d1b3a5a53c21"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1104.0626",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}