Pith Number

pith:KSI7FPRF

pith:2006:KSI7FPRFUOURKLU6YFYOO763M7

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First Quantized Theory of the Photon

Cai-Dong Xiong, Ole Keller, Zhi-yong Wang

arxiv:quant-ph/0605102 v7 · 2006-05-11 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KSI7FPRFUOURKLU6YFYOO763M7}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:37:56.718602Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5491f2be25a3a9152e9ec170e77fdb67ffba4b6d5e01ff78d6e2a823cb191fbc

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/0605102 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/0605102v7 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0605102 · pith_short_12: KSI7FPRFUOUR · pith_short_16: KSI7FPRFUOURKLU6 · pith_short_8: KSI7FPRF

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/KSI7FPRFUOURKLU6YFYOO763M7 \
  | 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: 5491f2be25a3a9152e9ec170e77fdb67ffba4b6d5e01ff78d6e2a823cb191fbc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2498319f164a081652c26ce6d4bfd5e66e81e54ecea4f8788e0fde8f578be4b9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2006-05-11T10:57:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b97109407a644fab46a915f3a7b32d88a8204e0fd9e97b3d2e93e09c22f959d5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/0605102",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 7
  }
}