Pith Number

pith:I3UANTZ5

pith:2010:I3UANTZ5QVQZU6SWAKY5A5NIHB

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Casimir energy, dispersion, and the Lifshitz formula

Iver Brevik, Jef Wagner, Kimball A. Milton, Prachi Parashar

arxiv:1001.4163 v1 · 2010-01-23 · cond-mat.other · hep-th · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{I3UANTZ5QVQZU6SWAKY5A5NIHB}

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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	2026-05-18T02:09:30.721009Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

46e806cf3d85619a7a5602b1d075a83845ce01309eaa0b8ef6cbc0a2b4332c1b

Aliases

arxiv: 1001.4163 · arxiv_version: 1001.4163v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1001.4163 · pith_short_12: I3UANTZ5QVQZ · pith_short_16: I3UANTZ5QVQZU6SW · pith_short_8: I3UANTZ5

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/I3UANTZ5QVQZU6SWAKY5A5NIHB \
  | 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: 46e806cf3d85619a7a5602b1d075a83845ce01309eaa0b8ef6cbc0a2b4332c1b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "711beca51fad32575a19a457d6b68e57e66cb376a9fe1c8b12b63070738f7253",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-th",
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cond-mat.other",
    "submitted_at": "2010-01-23T15:32:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ce0b6e5aef8fa6d6e7974e3ead16b6b334eaaebb417fc85f6371a099c287e90c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1001.4163",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}