Pith Number

pith:RV5YPYKW

pith:2012:RV5YPYKWGWTZE3DYNCQH6GJKBT

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Nanoscale structuring of tungsten tip yields most coherent electron point-source

A. Peter Legg, Jason Pitters, Josh Y. Mutus, Lucian Livadaru, Radovan Urban, Robert A. Wolkow

arxiv:1208.2994 v3 · 2012-08-14 · cond-mat.mes-hall · physics.ins-det

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\pithnumber{RV5YPYKWGWTZE3DYNCQH6GJKBT}

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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	2026-05-18T03:16:29.102017Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8d7b87e15635a7926c7868a07f192a0cd06365123aadce40f8bf9b21f3f1f9c5

Aliases

arxiv: 1208.2994 · arxiv_version: 1208.2994v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1208.2994 · pith_short_12: RV5YPYKWGWTZ · pith_short_16: RV5YPYKWGWTZE3DY · pith_short_8: RV5YPYKW

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/RV5YPYKWGWTZE3DYNCQH6GJKBT \
  | 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: 8d7b87e15635a7926c7868a07f192a0cd06365123aadce40f8bf9b21f3f1f9c5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6fe39b595b181fe10e10a87f080cb4dcb32cd338fefbe32280c2337fa0a9adbd",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.ins-det"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cond-mat.mes-hall",
    "submitted_at": "2012-08-14T23:52:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ca105c138c79293358bb5849b06e66bf10dec89c08060a40fb62e981887bcb62"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1208.2994",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}