Pith Number

pith:54E4LAMW

pith:2018:54E4LAMW4DILQH3JSOXBDDTITM

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Electromagnetic self-force for axially symmetric charge on a spherical shell

Andrew Steane

arxiv:1809.10098 v2 · 2018-09-26 · physics.class-ph · gr-qc

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{54E4LAMW4DILQH3JSOXBDDTITM}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:04:38.958642Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ef09c58196e0d0b81f6993ae118e689b2ceb983d4d2d596c8bb0bd1e82e0629c

Aliases

arxiv: 1809.10098 · arxiv_version: 1809.10098v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1809.10098 · pith_short_12: 54E4LAMW4DIL · pith_short_16: 54E4LAMW4DILQH3J · pith_short_8: 54E4LAMW

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/54E4LAMW4DILQH3JSOXBDDTITM \
  | 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: ef09c58196e0d0b81f6993ae118e689b2ceb983d4d2d596c8bb0bd1e82e0629c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e7219f7e80a2a8dcb76ceddab5227d87317a6b46e6d41f2d487cdf5713f2842b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.class-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2018-09-26T16:11:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e08b357200f4aef196a344d9938c5d250b2d32855bf0893acf82c799613c7800"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1809.10098",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}