Pith Number

pith:FP2BLW2S

pith:2014:FP2BLW2SELL6ZD6S4XW6QG7UA6

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Classical Interaction of a Magnet and a Point Charge: The Shockley-James Paradox

Timothy H. Boyer

arxiv:1408.3742 v1 · 2014-08-16 · physics.class-ph · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{FP2BLW2SELL6ZD6S4XW6QG7UA6}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications 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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T02:19:36.087672Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2bf415db5222d7ec8fd2e5ede81bf40799207284683f6b9ce028393c98ffdfab

Aliases

arxiv: 1408.3742 · arxiv_version: 1408.3742v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1408.3742 · pith_short_12: FP2BLW2SELL6 · pith_short_16: FP2BLW2SELL6ZD6S · pith_short_8: FP2BLW2S

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/FP2BLW2SELL6ZD6S4XW6QG7UA6 \
  | 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: 2bf415db5222d7ec8fd2e5ede81bf40799207284683f6b9ce028393c98ffdfab

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fc0a7865f0e0481f5246ddc8a9c6f509aa5a02318d8550ee709d80d88b780967",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.class-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2014-08-16T15:29:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b6e0c553db0d7a26d6e043023d3a499522fcb5e32fa5a1f15e90f3550d0b233d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1408.3742",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}