Pith Number

pith:T7SKJ6WC

pith:2012:T7SKJ6WCGFXFXEOT4BYIMJRGNH

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A simplistic pedagogical formulation of a thermal speed distribution using a relativistic framework

Ashmeet Singh

arxiv:1208.3897 v2 · 2012-08-20 · physics.gen-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{T7SKJ6WCGFXFXEOT4BYIMJRGNH}

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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	2026-05-18T02:21:00.965454Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9fe4a4fac2316e5b91d3e07086262669cad56709e1ded850e6bebe3bb2e9e4ff

Aliases

arxiv: 1208.3897 · arxiv_version: 1208.3897v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1208.3897 · pith_short_12: T7SKJ6WCGFXF · pith_short_16: T7SKJ6WCGFXFXEOT · pith_short_8: T7SKJ6WC

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/T7SKJ6WCGFXFXEOT4BYIMJRGNH \
  | 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: 9fe4a4fac2316e5b91d3e07086262669cad56709e1ded850e6bebe3bb2e9e4ff

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6e9be3fa3a9175121f2ead6ae75f73cc8158cbbf6e7d487ef2e2bfa17eea14db",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.gen-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-08-20T16:38:26Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9b1b41d99dae6a4e0774fa8373bf6eaeb5024e8377dd0f3f6e3b1bcfc06bb92a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1208.3897",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}