Pith Number

pith:QVLN2NLE

pith:2026:QVLN2NLENDXVAT4ZVRKQNTB6D3

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On the ideal stability of the sheared-flow Z pinch

Daniel W. Crews, Jackson C. Turner

arxiv:2608.00291 v1 · 2026-07-31 · physics.plasm-ph · physics.flu-dyn

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QVLN2NLENDXVAT4ZVRKQNTB6D3}

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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	2026-08-04T00:34:48.440969Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8556dd356468ef504f99ac5506cc3e1ec532f0bafe087fa36b68eccf57e6777e

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.00291 · arxiv_version: 2608.00291v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.00291 · pith_short_12: QVLN2NLENDXV · pith_short_16: QVLN2NLENDXVAT4Z · pith_short_8: QVLN2NLE

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/QVLN2NLENDXVAT4ZVRKQNTB6D3 \
  | 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: 8556dd356468ef504f99ac5506cc3e1ec532f0bafe087fa36b68eccf57e6777e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d4335195c895e8bca7f69ef1f21fec4283de5f234473e230e657118ea526a49b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.flu-dyn"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.plasm-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-31T21:03:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7900ed14dcbe03990fd310ec3ded7cc50a5b0665ed07cc1ccbd57800201a2aaf"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.00291",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}