Pith Number

pith:RGJ4UPEW

pith:2014:RGJ4UPEWQLBDNF3ASOFHEZPQFY

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Tearing of thin sheets: Cracks interacting through an elastic ridge

Fabian Brau

arxiv:1409.0450 v2 · 2014-09-01 · cond-mat.soft · cond-mat.mtrl-sci

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RGJ4UPEWQLBDNF3ASOFHEZPQFY}

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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	2026-05-18T02:30:31.649846Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8993ca3c9682c2369760938a7265f02e075cc66b7359007daaf6919899893094

Aliases

arxiv: 1409.0450 · arxiv_version: 1409.0450v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1409.0450 · pith_short_12: RGJ4UPEWQLBD · pith_short_16: RGJ4UPEWQLBDNF3A · pith_short_8: RGJ4UPEW

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/RGJ4UPEWQLBDNF3ASOFHEZPQFY \
  | 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: 8993ca3c9682c2369760938a7265f02e075cc66b7359007daaf6919899893094

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "94a2cc7dae176fe2f7a6a245b1ccfc807dd32b36207706428ec69a500673e738",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cond-mat.mtrl-sci"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cond-mat.soft",
    "submitted_at": "2014-09-01T15:21:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5e3da6ecc1fa80d34ece7ed5eab8dbeaec60033b6d837e230ba781bb399f75d8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1409.0450",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}