Pith Number

pith:6MVM6OK2

pith:2015:6MVM6OK2IV6U3AIVB6RPCT66MV

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:1507.05604 v1 · 2015-07-20 · physics.ed-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6MVM6OK2IV6U3AIVB6RPCT66MV}

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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	2026-05-18T01:36:36.420748Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f32acf395a457d4d81150fa2f14fde656ef6907d19c7eaa21dc351c708a903c6

Aliases

arxiv: 1507.05604 · arxiv_version: 1507.05604v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1507.05604 · pith_short_12: 6MVM6OK2IV6U · pith_short_16: 6MVM6OK2IV6U3AIV · pith_short_8: 6MVM6OK2

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/6MVM6OK2IV6U3AIVB6RPCT66MV \
  | 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: f32acf395a457d4d81150fa2f14fde656ef6907d19c7eaa21dc351c708a903c6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7b64bdeabd7e6dc711f763033668d32a02a651111ad9a970b5b8861ce97aa7b2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.ed-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2015-07-20T19:50:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e0ea011c90c4b2599fa87cf2faad370e8584130d813fab48977f7ffe0b7d1013"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1507.05604",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}