Pith Number

pith:HFWCPUH4

pith:2015:HFWCPUH4BFLR3J3Y75AU4YHLXA

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Understanding Zero-Point Energy in the Context of Classical Electromagnetism

Timothy H. Boyer

arxiv:1512.08033 v1 · 2015-12-25 · physics.class-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HFWCPUH4BFLR3J3Y75AU4YHLXA}

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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	2026-05-18T01:06:24.462336Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

396c27d0fc09571da778ff414e60ebb8060a27b2e656964a0743654ab651121e

Aliases

arxiv: 1512.08033 · arxiv_version: 1512.08033v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1512.08033 · pith_short_12: HFWCPUH4BFLR · pith_short_16: HFWCPUH4BFLR3J3Y · pith_short_8: HFWCPUH4

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/HFWCPUH4BFLR3J3Y75AU4YHLXA \
  | 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: 396c27d0fc09571da778ff414e60ebb8060a27b2e656964a0743654ab651121e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "adbc2eb4971702b6467d9dcd228ec5dea85506624255bba31f8ab8ba84d61d18",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.class-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2015-12-25T20:32:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2e38b18bdab68cd12d7b41593b9e0cc517741a9ffe850855a55384144c952a58"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1512.08033",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}