Pith Number

pith:73T3E5T6

pith:2012:73T3E5T6EQWZUASWF7PK6BVOOC

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Canonical quantization of the electromagnetic field interacting with a moving dielectric

S. A. R. Horsley

arxiv:1205.0486 v6 · 2012-05-02 · quant-ph · physics.optics

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{73T3E5T6EQWZUASWF7PK6BVOOC}

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4 Citations 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	2026-05-18T03:48:33.727241Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

fee7b2767e242d9a02562fdeaf06ae70be1acaa2721d914c6f097962beedad3a

Aliases

arxiv: 1205.0486 · arxiv_version: 1205.0486v6 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1205.0486 · pith_short_12: 73T3E5T6EQWZ · pith_short_16: 73T3E5T6EQWZUASW · pith_short_8: 73T3E5T6

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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/73T3E5T6EQWZUASWF7PK6BVOOC \
  | 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: fee7b2767e242d9a02562fdeaf06ae70be1acaa2721d914c6f097962beedad3a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f95a59b8f7bdd77d2282e09e9a024617395618216710167e24add1f1686bdfd8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.optics"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-05-02T16:36:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d2e44a680b9dbe4d9fd234f0b5fab009d7387cc090338e877e37266369f53d57"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1205.0486",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 6
  }
}