Pith Number

pith:BPBGLJSU

pith:2018:BPBGLJSURZKRWYTSEUORBSWO4E

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Inevitability of the Lagrangian and gauge potentials

A. R. P. Rau

arxiv:1807.09353 v1 · 2018-07-25 · physics.class-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BPBGLJSURZKRWYTSEUORBSWO4E}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T00:09:51.579078Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0bc265a6548e551b6272251d10cacee1005162270f1548b43737cc7cc1002f1b

Aliases

arxiv: 1807.09353 · arxiv_version: 1807.09353v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1807.09353 · pith_short_12: BPBGLJSURZKR · pith_short_16: BPBGLJSURZKRWYTS · pith_short_8: BPBGLJSU

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/BPBGLJSURZKRWYTSEUORBSWO4E \
  | 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: 0bc265a6548e551b6272251d10cacee1005162270f1548b43737cc7cc1002f1b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4a9cd95672e12b8d82ca1551ae1c7d5ed4e32490dadd1e77fe764bd3de46494c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.class-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2018-07-25T05:55:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c7e7478f68672721b09374845765e624b1b313a4d9b88f42ad90fb0cdd3e5878"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1807.09353",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}