Pith Number

pith:DXX4MTNB

pith:2015:DXX4MTNBN33GS6UXA7D4AGSGTG

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The (1,0)+(0,1) spinor description of the photon field and its preliminary applications

Zhi-yong Wang

arxiv:1508.02321 v4 · 2015-08-10 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{DXX4MTNBN33GS6UXA7D4AGSGTG}

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4 Citations open

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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	2026-05-18T01:20:01.496363Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1defc64da16ef6697a9707c7c01a46998ad7cc517a5db5a24e525c3d558c561d

Aliases

arxiv: 1508.02321 · arxiv_version: 1508.02321v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1508.02321 · pith_short_12: DXX4MTNBN33G · pith_short_16: DXX4MTNBN33GS6UX · pith_short_8: DXX4MTNB

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/DXX4MTNBN33GS6UXA7D4AGSGTG \
  | 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: 1defc64da16ef6697a9707c7c01a46998ad7cc517a5db5a24e525c3d558c561d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cd026824de5b9b360d419d4d016445df596c7ece4e737816b07837c3f14e6a37",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2015-08-10T16:55:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3d11bd6a23c0b4dc7cd3b27fe7e2ab5294a3687ba70ad512cdda953cf2a3666e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1508.02321",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}