Pith Number

pith:H64YMXDA

pith:2010:H64YMXDATSVENLJ3MVX64AXMQO

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Coulomb solution as a coherent state of unphysical photons

Glenn Barnich

arxiv:1001.1387 v2 · 2010-01-09 · gr-qc · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{H64YMXDATSVENLJ3MVX64AXMQO}

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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	2026-05-18T04:34:00.451934Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3fb9865c609caa46ad3b656fee02ec8383138eac34dfaae855cf2f99b4bb1022

Aliases

arxiv: 1001.1387 · arxiv_version: 1001.1387v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1001.1387 · pith_short_12: H64YMXDATSVE · pith_short_16: H64YMXDATSVENLJ3 · pith_short_8: H64YMXDA

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/H64YMXDATSVENLJ3MVX64AXMQO \
  | 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: 3fb9865c609caa46ad3b656fee02ec8383138eac34dfaae855cf2f99b4bb1022

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5ca4fa2654524dac306d6170f8e5840d185f7957ffaea34dd9f34b8ea56b5d84",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "2010-01-09T00:31:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c5569de7577e35b065399326a399140f6c8537d3e70c2b0eb412def2590e2728"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1001.1387",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}