Pith Number

pith:IKCWSVPM

pith:2018:IKCWSVPMTHY4SLLOYZQMWGHLY5

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The non-modal onset of the tearing instability

David MacTaggart

arxiv:1808.10208 v1 · 2018-08-30 · physics.plasm-ph · astro-ph.SR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IKCWSVPMTHY4SLLOYZQMWGHLY5}

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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	2026-05-18T00:03:15.133077Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

42856955ec99f1c92d6ec660cb18ebc76ea2643023fa867953ad60d0192ac1f0

Aliases

arxiv: 1808.10208 · arxiv_version: 1808.10208v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1808.10208 · pith_short_12: IKCWSVPMTHY4 · pith_short_16: IKCWSVPMTHY4SLLO · pith_short_8: IKCWSVPM

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/IKCWSVPMTHY4SLLOYZQMWGHLY5 \
  | 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: 42856955ec99f1c92d6ec660cb18ebc76ea2643023fa867953ad60d0192ac1f0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9a2e28684eaf5d9219de37940f263acccfcb7a5cc99eed149fa261da7e67aae5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.SR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.plasm-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2018-08-30T10:16:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2f8edc0b9eab4a89a7f868c67f38a882c333a22de17522b11df6dd537c31e942"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1808.10208",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}