Pith Number

pith:HCEI5HSD

pith:2017:HCEI5HSDISMWM36DUWWWK5EGDM

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The isolated electron: De Broglie's "hidden" thermodynamics, SU(2) Quantum Yang-Mills theory, and a strongly perturbed BPS monopole

Ralf Hofmann

arxiv:1709.03873 v2 · 2017-09-08 · physics.gen-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HCEI5HSDISMWM36DUWWWK5EGDM}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:31:58.676058Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

38888e9e434499666fc3a5ad6574861b26dc30f6c6a894b3b0dcfbedfc707d9a

Aliases

arxiv: 1709.03873 · arxiv_version: 1709.03873v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1709.03873 · pith_short_12: HCEI5HSDISMW · pith_short_16: HCEI5HSDISMWM36D · pith_short_8: HCEI5HSD

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/HCEI5HSDISMWM36DUWWWK5EGDM \
  | 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: 38888e9e434499666fc3a5ad6574861b26dc30f6c6a894b3b0dcfbedfc707d9a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0c7838d90b85fc54f4ff0cc0e8a93e19d4e4876580d31fd774e888b8d672f9c3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.gen-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-09-08T06:19:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2ab8237b4dde2e0de4fea9b703a329ff42c70f89435030d7c93ab0b290194bde"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1709.03873",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}