Pith Number

pith:K7LWZP37

pith:2016:K7LWZP37D3F4LRESMOA45SHA6E

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Maxwell's Equations in Media and Their Solution

Tao Zhang

arxiv:1611.03108 v1 · 2016-10-21 · physics.class-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{K7LWZP37D3F4LRESMOA45SHA6E}

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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	2026-05-18T00:59:41.346655Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

57d76cbf7f1ecbc5c4926381cec8e0f125d632980dfc33ea24e5dfb7eb25eb0e

Aliases

arxiv: 1611.03108 · arxiv_version: 1611.03108v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1611.03108 · pith_short_12: K7LWZP37D3F4 · pith_short_16: K7LWZP37D3F4LRES · pith_short_8: K7LWZP37

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/K7LWZP37D3F4LRESMOA45SHA6E \
  | 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: 57d76cbf7f1ecbc5c4926381cec8e0f125d632980dfc33ea24e5dfb7eb25eb0e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "71810311ab5e03aefbefb5b0fdb89d95c1b3b47c1bbd0407ef84350bf90d11ea",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.class-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-10-21T02:14:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c4e0338b54ca49e47baa9b3d3aebcf2c36ad55727bf9f1ec3ed61d17a0fd644b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1611.03108",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}