Pith Number

pith:3A2TJ4ES

pith:2017:3A2TJ4ES5L5BPLKPQ4DWOLIVGL

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

On the Emergence of the Coulomb Forces in Quantum Electrodynamics

Jan Naudts

arxiv:1704.04048 v1 · 2017-04-13 · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3A2TJ4ES5L5BPLKPQ4DWOLIVGL}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:46:25.523624Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d83534f092eafa17ad4f8707672d1532e53f6a9219eba96e87db4aadcd1ea437

Aliases

arxiv: 1704.04048 · arxiv_version: 1704.04048v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1704.04048 · pith_short_12: 3A2TJ4ES5L5B · pith_short_16: 3A2TJ4ES5L5BPLKP · pith_short_8: 3A2TJ4ES

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/3A2TJ4ES5L5BPLKPQ4DWOLIVGL \
  | 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: d83534f092eafa17ad4f8707672d1532e53f6a9219eba96e87db4aadcd1ea437

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f48ae08f7db4fbff6b374df88c9bae0056264cd7b62fe14d1f400028ed3b59cb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2017-04-13T09:32:52Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "518a505990e7d45c9e96576d16f818096a0c702662b44d164cda8ea49338edde"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1704.04048",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}