Pith Number

pith:IWMQ5KMZ

pith:2015:IWMQ5KMZZI4TEQSXZCHKLGJ3FJ

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Photons in a Ball

Wolfgang M\"uck

arxiv:1510.04490 v2 · 2015-10-15 · hep-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IWMQ5KMZZI4TEQSXZCHKLGJ3FJ}

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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.

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1 paper in Pith

Coherent States in Gauge Theories: Topological Defects and Other Classical Configurations

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T01:24:14.136953Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

45990ea999ca39324257c88ea5993b2a5d39cc8d9793841e155b0ba845e8e342

Aliases

arxiv: 1510.04490 · arxiv_version: 1510.04490v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1510.04490 · pith_short_12: IWMQ5KMZZI4T · pith_short_16: IWMQ5KMZZI4TEQSX · pith_short_8: IWMQ5KMZ

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/IWMQ5KMZZI4TEQSXZCHKLGJ3FJ \
  | 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: 45990ea999ca39324257c88ea5993b2a5d39cc8d9793841e155b0ba845e8e342

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fea9027b3597b119bab1ea3b74cfd90e9148a43f2d3d3b8fdc41ff8fd92a8d17",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2015-10-15T12:09:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6134e0385578ebbd2887b08e0ac50917a79ae4abd927f5fa8ad8cc5c93fb71e4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1510.04490",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}