Pith Number

pith:BQ3YWFXN

pith:2011:BQ3YWFXNW6BVNYIRRXT5ZZW2OA

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Faraday's Lines of Force as Strings: from Gauss' Law to the Arrow of Time

Paul Mansfield

arxiv:1108.5094 v2 · 2011-08-25 · hep-th · physics.class-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BQ3YWFXNW6BVNYIRRXT5ZZW2OA}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T02:00:48.130212Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0c378b16edb78356e1118de7dce6da70343bb05dbccc58096e95b34964ffaa9d

Aliases

arxiv: 1108.5094 · arxiv_version: 1108.5094v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1108.5094 · pith_short_12: BQ3YWFXNW6BV · pith_short_16: BQ3YWFXNW6BVNYIR · pith_short_8: BQ3YWFXN

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/BQ3YWFXNW6BVNYIRRXT5ZZW2OA \
  | 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: 0c378b16edb78356e1118de7dce6da70343bb05dbccc58096e95b34964ffaa9d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4f94b3510f6398999958c626284d673216cee0fa28a6a5710f912f9c072da2f9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.class-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2011-08-25T14:01:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0ea6f155d6fcc9e8c9608801c3d09f47843ce53988707facffc713ad5a39c6b7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1108.5094",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}