Pith Number

pith:IYNCFLM7

pith:2017:IYNCFLM7DWRSHAEKY7UGARAS3C

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

An observable prerequisite for the existence of persistent currents

Jacob Szeftel, Michel Abou Ghantous, Nicolas Sandeau

arxiv:1704.03729 v8 · 2017-04-08 · physics.gen-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IYNCFLM7DWRSHAEKY7UGARAS3C}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-17T23:49:44.343069Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

461a22ad9f1da323808ac7e8604412d896809479b106369cde5e4eb085f99652

Aliases

arxiv: 1704.03729 · arxiv_version: 1704.03729v8 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1704.03729 · pith_short_12: IYNCFLM7DWRS · pith_short_16: IYNCFLM7DWRSHAEK · pith_short_8: IYNCFLM7

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/IYNCFLM7DWRSHAEKY7UGARAS3C \
  | 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: 461a22ad9f1da323808ac7e8604412d896809479b106369cde5e4eb085f99652

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "32db8eda8bdd948b64cb7101a881a538e447527eb7e84e985533de8fde10732d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.gen-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-04-08T11:18:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "25f57a88b0a3d229a71bc803bebbcce97cd5b927378b1a84276b2e7b6c2a6f7c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1704.03729",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 8
  }
}