Pith Number

pith:HNPXCSSL

pith:2008:HNPXCSSLGON5YNHCUTPO7HS2GV

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Classical Electrodynamics without Fields and the Aharonov-Bohm effect

Eugene V. Stefanovich

arxiv:0803.1326 v2 · 2008-03-09 · physics.gen-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HNPXCSSLGON5YNHCUTPO7HS2GV}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-07-04T15:10:17.701799Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3b5f714a4b339bdc34e2a4deef9e5a35438dd3109be3b809987fa326a0ca4080

Aliases

arxiv: 0803.1326 · arxiv_version: 0803.1326v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0803.1326 · pith_short_12: HNPXCSSLGON5 · pith_short_16: HNPXCSSLGON5YNHC · pith_short_8: HNPXCSSL

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/HNPXCSSLGON5YNHCUTPO7HS2GV \
  | 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: 3b5f714a4b339bdc34e2a4deef9e5a35438dd3109be3b809987fa326a0ca4080

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d1d21e7886a566b5f46a773dc6da9d1cf6c65194c7b466bcc135519ca3ea9de9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.gen-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2008-03-09T22:31:26Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8521398501f76a9351b41f51ea2e5f8adde8b8ac0ee68d602cafeb2923822742"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0803.1326",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}