Pith Number

pith:QJ6GVIM6

pith:2017:QJ6GVIM6LMWSRYTA4OD3JSLC3M

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Currents and finite elements as tools for shape space

James Benn, Klas Modin, Olivier Verdier, Robert I McLachlan, Stephen Marsland

arxiv:1702.02780 v2 · 2017-02-09 · math.NA · cs.NA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QJ6GVIM6LMWSRYTA4OD3JSLC3M}

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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	2026-06-04T18:10:28.619589Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

827c6aa19e5b2d28e260e387b4c962db0cd1c68bd353014f8f4d105f745ddc09

Aliases

arxiv: 1702.02780 · arxiv_version: 1702.02780v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1702.02780 · pith_short_12: QJ6GVIM6LMWS · pith_short_16: QJ6GVIM6LMWSRYTA · pith_short_8: QJ6GVIM6

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/QJ6GVIM6LMWSRYTA4OD3JSLC3M \
  | 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: 827c6aa19e5b2d28e260e387b4c962db0cd1c68bd353014f8f4d105f745ddc09

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d676b5dc997fabb2b0a237aba39b8e7450aa3a1873cacc060c6d7c3287b8ae88",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.NA"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.NA",
    "submitted_at": "2017-02-09T10:41:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "40eee0070a654d7ae8a1cab63ea1896341b3e9cd2feee4e42fcf869abd671d53"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
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    "version": 2
  }
}