Pith Number

pith:DQ4SN5EL

pith:2002:DQ4SN5ELDVT3ZNTIHGTWQI4URJ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Self Force of a Charge in a Real Current Environment

L.P. Horwitz, Reuven Ianconescu

arxiv:physics/0206064 v1 · 2002-06-18 · physics.acc-ph · physics.class-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{DQ4SN5ELDVT3ZNTIHGTWQI4URJ}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T01:38:09.257038Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1c3926f48b1d67bcb66839a76823948a58812487516b692d296bbe64e9d62e1a

Aliases

arxiv: physics/0206064 · arxiv_version: physics/0206064v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.physics/0206064 · pith_short_12: DQ4SN5ELDVT3 · pith_short_16: DQ4SN5ELDVT3ZNTI · pith_short_8: DQ4SN5EL

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/DQ4SN5ELDVT3ZNTIHGTWQI4URJ \
  | 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: 1c3926f48b1d67bcb66839a76823948a58812487516b692d296bbe64e9d62e1a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "df1ca8feb908466471023f77e06c3ee0011602fc7d0294c560936ad491b406fb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.class-ph"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "physics.acc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2002-06-18T09:12:33Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ede3dc93d35a6370ab3686e63b4ad0332540bd516f7e4547266bb12625fb4e04"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "physics/0206064",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}