Pith Number

pith:ZYTC2IO2

pith:2017:ZYTC2IO2A3HVNEABKLAWYUBZPM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Electrostatically driven helical plasma state

Cihan Ak\c{c}ay, Daniel C. Barnes, John M. Finn, Richard A. Nebel

arxiv:1708.03656 v1 · 2017-08-11 · physics.plasm-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZYTC2IO2A3HVNEABKLAWYUBZPM}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T00:38:08.207632Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ce262d21da06cf56900152c16c50397b0acaf56cf2b3e565ea6544cc9d51db6b

Aliases

arxiv: 1708.03656 · arxiv_version: 1708.03656v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.03656 · pith_short_12: ZYTC2IO2A3HV · pith_short_16: ZYTC2IO2A3HVNEAB · pith_short_8: ZYTC2IO2

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/ZYTC2IO2A3HVNEABKLAWYUBZPM \
  | 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: ce262d21da06cf56900152c16c50397b0acaf56cf2b3e565ea6544cc9d51db6b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f28fcdc2d3aa2b4e73b49cdbe8f0374a6a952260ef93e68ef2186ec747aa763d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.plasm-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-11T18:33:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cbf4e90152ab7460eac8f654bac1275da0a01b537fc835d208a120a675379934"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1708.03656",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}