Pith Number

pith:NQ3WD7PQ

pith:2018:NQ3WD7PQRTSIQYANEP7745RFHG

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The probabilistic structure of the geodynamo

Bruce A. Buffett, Christian R. Scullard

arxiv:1804.05432 v1 · 2018-04-15 · physics.geo-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NQ3WD7PQRTSIQYANEP7745RFHG}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-17T23:57:10.396142Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6c3761fdf08ce488600d23fffe762539ace30ba8bc8c79045f7b9fb2df8e7dc6

Aliases

arxiv: 1804.05432 · arxiv_version: 1804.05432v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1804.05432 · pith_short_12: NQ3WD7PQRTSI · pith_short_16: NQ3WD7PQRTSIQYAN · pith_short_8: NQ3WD7PQ

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/NQ3WD7PQRTSIQYANEP7745RFHG \
  | 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: 6c3761fdf08ce488600d23fffe762539ace30ba8bc8c79045f7b9fb2df8e7dc6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5c501a2d523ddc0e3941dadd471d460ab8a798d64a68eff767df1b877bc413a8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.geo-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2018-04-15T21:19:51Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "26e15727a37377e56f26d3c99aabfc1ea73bf13c6ae55ebcf02d2514ee203395"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1804.05432",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}