Pith Number

pith:3BPKYFTZ

pith:2026:3BPKYFTZ6K6TZL5LRNA4MEM6JV

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Electrodynamics as a Theory of Persistent Stochastic Processes

Partha Ghose

arxiv:2605.24494 v1 · 2026-05-23 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3BPKYFTZ6K6TZL5LRNA4MEM6JV}

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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	2026-05-26T01:03:42.800943Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d85eac1679f2bd3cafab8b41c6119e4d4faa3fb35adae2ea79a8a2937e0ae78d

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.24494 · arxiv_version: 2605.24494v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.24494 · pith_short_12: 3BPKYFTZ6K6T · pith_short_16: 3BPKYFTZ6K6TZL5L · pith_short_8: 3BPKYFTZ

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/3BPKYFTZ6K6TZL5LRNA4MEM6JV \
  | 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: d85eac1679f2bd3cafab8b41c6119e4d4faa3fb35adae2ea79a8a2937e0ae78d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "90c3f2de8c5cc47c6a7622f24fab2e4dd0385c57c58ab8364732947ba812da26",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-23T10:01:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a1f777710865d505ac3c17317e81fe0c8dba9c49a5ed9d4363dbc4f79ffd4991"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.24494",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}