Pith Number

pith:HIXRGZOT

pith:1996:HIXRGZOTAFZ4TPV5D4CVZKQYUL

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Electromagnetic and Proca Fields Revisited: a Unified Quantization

M. Calixto, M. Navarro, V. Aldaya

arxiv:hep-th/9609083 v1 · 1996-09-10 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HIXRGZOTAFZ4TPV5D4CVZKQYUL}

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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	2026-05-18T01:38:37.780235Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3a2f1365d30173c9bebd1f055caa18a2d4c3886037993bc48aa0a2899f2f625e

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9609083 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9609083v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9609083 · pith_short_12: HIXRGZOTAFZ4 · pith_short_16: HIXRGZOTAFZ4TPV5 · pith_short_8: HIXRGZOT

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/HIXRGZOTAFZ4TPV5D4CVZKQYUL \
  | 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: 3a2f1365d30173c9bebd1f055caa18a2d4c3886037993bc48aa0a2899f2f625e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ee33874a666e8f674555bec33a2cbb4a827019c7288e970473dc5117e7343aa7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1996-09-10T11:00:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8a9ce335ea887b8fc1194f55f6e6fd136fe35ffa08e705bb29f22dda9e77c4f9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9609083",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}