Pith Number

pith:7W7PVCE4

pith:2025:7W7PVCE4JWTLU75E3OO25KR5PR

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Perspectives on Quantum Friction, Self-Propulsion, and Self-Torque

Gerard Kennedy, Kimball A. Milton, Nima Pourtolami

arxiv:2501.17793 v2 · 2025-01-29 · quant-ph · hep-th

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\pithnumber{7W7PVCE4JWTLU75E3OO25KR5PR}

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Perspectives on Quantum Friction, Self-Propulsion, and Self-Torque

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First computed	2026-07-05T10:41:20.135497Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

fdbefa889c4da6ba7fa4db9daeaa3d7c72b67f9c5e3d178bad1c2d6ddb3ac55a

Aliases

arxiv: 2501.17793 · arxiv_version: 2501.17793v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2501.17793 · pith_short_12: 7W7PVCE4JWTL · pith_short_16: 7W7PVCE4JWTLU75E · pith_short_8: 7W7PVCE4

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/7W7PVCE4JWTLU75E3OO25KR5PR \
  | 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: fdbefa889c4da6ba7fa4db9daeaa3d7c72b67f9c5e3d178bad1c2d6ddb3ac55a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5b84f72ab4fa7248a5c7146bac4c50effc4f4771e7f345a688970a678d179b6e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2025-01-29T17:32:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "207997bdd318ec9e54f8b7fc6413f22a52168011e7869145a56fe878511a778e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2501.17793",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}