Pith Number

pith:3VBYGUAZ

pith:2017:3VBYGUAZ7NJITKKOLCBKMY6T6J

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Student Difficulties with Boundary Conditions in Electrodynamics

Bethany R. Wilcox, Qing X. Ryan, Steven J. Pollock

arxiv:1703.06203 v1 · 2017-03-17 · physics.ed-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3VBYGUAZ7NJITKKOLCBKMY6T6J}

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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	2026-05-18T00:48:25.466914Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

dd43835019fb5289a94e5882a663d3f256a907d0c3a00d0efdc51df47a9d29f3

Aliases

arxiv: 1703.06203 · arxiv_version: 1703.06203v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1703.06203 · pith_short_12: 3VBYGUAZ7NJI · pith_short_16: 3VBYGUAZ7NJITKKO · pith_short_8: 3VBYGUAZ

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/3VBYGUAZ7NJITKKOLCBKMY6T6J \
  | 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: dd43835019fb5289a94e5882a663d3f256a907d0c3a00d0efdc51df47a9d29f3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "71ac6a5700a0b099ea290ec1d38029102089337d734d3ebc48fbe4d7dac17997",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.ed-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-03-17T21:38:44Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e0ea011c90c4b2599fa87cf2faad370e8584130d813fab48977f7ffe0b7d1013"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1703.06203",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}