Pith Number

pith:KD3BDS4K

pith:2013:KD3BDS4K2GGCLSADX7PQJUL2ZQ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

An impact model of the electrostatic force: Coulomb's law re-visited

B.N. Dwivedi, H. Wilhelm, K. Wilhelm

arxiv:1403.1489 v5 · 2013-10-05 · physics.gen-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KD3BDS4K2GGCLSADX7PQJUL2ZQ}

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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	2026-05-18T00:21:05.472611Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

50f611cb8ad18c25c803bfdf04d17acc3d25458221e24e613e81cd5d2cd3136b

Aliases

arxiv: 1403.1489 · arxiv_version: 1403.1489v5 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1403.1489 · pith_short_12: KD3BDS4K2GGC · pith_short_16: KD3BDS4K2GGCLSAD · pith_short_8: KD3BDS4K

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/KD3BDS4K2GGCLSADX7PQJUL2ZQ \
  | 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: 50f611cb8ad18c25c803bfdf04d17acc3d25458221e24e613e81cd5d2cd3136b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "927adaf05a82760895ff8342f862e346ca01ecae0d69409d73340ee11ecc0289",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.gen-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2013-10-05T04:07:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f5fbf8d0a60d059fc5bd8261405a725453a2847dd29f9d95437a629defe6f94c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1403.1489",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 5
  }
}