Pith Number

pith:42ERNWOO

pith:2016:42ERNWOOAAPQ7AVZIISCTBZAPU

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The laws of Newton and Coulomb as information transmission by virtual particles

V. A. Malyshev

arxiv:1605.04398 v1 · 2016-05-14 · math-ph · math.MP · physics.class-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{42ERNWOOAAPQ7AVZIISCTBZAPU}

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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	2026-05-18T01:00:45.584559Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e68916d9ce001f0f82b942242987207d1b422a925929e894e3180ed203e9ddba

Aliases

arxiv: 1605.04398 · arxiv_version: 1605.04398v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1605.04398 · pith_short_12: 42ERNWOOAAPQ · pith_short_16: 42ERNWOOAAPQ7AVZ · pith_short_8: 42ERNWOO

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/42ERNWOOAAPQ7AVZIISCTBZAPU \
  | 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: e68916d9ce001f0f82b942242987207d1b422a925929e894e3180ed203e9ddba

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f0156b3adb5eb806a95aff5958dd8cceb4280c288248baddda287baefd584e3d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.MP",
      "physics.class-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-05-14T09:30:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b45dcafd3c193b25ffe727ff77a25a250f5d5886b72aad587396f3292a88c146"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1605.04398",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}