Pith Number

pith:BAHOIYX3

pith:2011:BAHOIYX3QTOKMJUGKMWODOWKAJ

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On the causality of electrodynamics and the Aharonov-Bohm effect

Richard Kowar

arxiv:1111.5755 v1 · 2011-11-24 · math-ph · math.MP · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BAHOIYX3QTOKMJUGKMWODOWKAJ}

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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	2026-05-18T04:07:42.363730Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

080ee462fb84dca62686532ce1baca024db33b1bbd9c59d108b1c1bdb8f61d3b

Aliases

arxiv: 1111.5755 · arxiv_version: 1111.5755v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1111.5755 · pith_short_12: BAHOIYX3QTOK · pith_short_16: BAHOIYX3QTOKMJUG · pith_short_8: BAHOIYX3

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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/BAHOIYX3QTOKMJUGKMWODOWKAJ \
  | 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: 080ee462fb84dca62686532ce1baca024db33b1bbd9c59d108b1c1bdb8f61d3b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "06c4b1587d4301d58b8cb28f4abdea1615433e6af91c2d5e3574e9580ea51c8b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.MP",
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2011-11-24T13:36:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1eba98f3b30170db914e3f83d2ae5d39cbf6eabc959ff35f926c9d263962df87"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1111.5755",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}