Pith Number

pith:KTN3QLXX

pith:1998:KTN3QLXX552T5XOOFHJE3VT6LV

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Energy of the vacuum with a perfectly conducting and infinite cylindrical surface

A. Romeo, P. Gosdzinsky

arxiv:hep-th/9809199 v1 · 1998-09-29 · hep-th · hep-ph · math-ph · math.MP · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KTN3QLXX552T5XOOFHJE3VT6LV}

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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	2026-07-04T16:09:55.349687Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

54dbb82ef7ef753eddce29d24dd67e5d55d0294163005074661e7e8bad7694c1

Aliases

arxiv: hep-th/9809199 · arxiv_version: hep-th/9809199v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9809199 · pith_short_12: KTN3QLXX552T · pith_short_16: KTN3QLXX552T5XOO · pith_short_8: KTN3QLXX

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/KTN3QLXX552T5XOOFHJE3VT6LV \
  | 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: 54dbb82ef7ef753eddce29d24dd67e5d55d0294163005074661e7e8bad7694c1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f0c791fd96ab54ddefe7d995b83ac848f3aeb590fd71a17b4b7d29a4b5e54b78",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-ph",
      "math-ph",
      "math.MP",
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "1998-09-29T07:44:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e3cc7ebf274cb1e6f5439f0695dba42f074c69308c9f6c2cc86d202e508ff98d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-th/9809199",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}