Pith Number

pith:LU5HOTML

pith:2026:LU5HOTMLKMAOKTW2J4NAMAPWC6

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What is electric charge?: Charge as a local observable in relativistic quantum field theory

Hideyasu Yamashita

arxiv:2608.00468 v1 · 2026-08-01 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LU5HOTMLKMAOKTW2J4NAMAPWC6}

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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	2026-08-04T00:36:44.402714Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5d3a774d8b5300e54eda4f1a0601f61790759705fb39e93da94cbb1d36b928c2

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.00468 · arxiv_version: 2608.00468v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.00468 · pith_short_12: LU5HOTMLKMAO · pith_short_16: LU5HOTMLKMAOKTW2 · pith_short_8: LU5HOTML

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/LU5HOTMLKMAOKTW2J4NAMAPWC6 \
  | 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: 5d3a774d8b5300e54eda4f1a0601f61790759705fb39e93da94cbb1d36b928c2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "624d6c55e65d5960c35c3d15697df64ac5693cb13e86def0830bd01f454e52de",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-01T06:17:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5eb89bea12ebb2165b2d14a465491b84f52d7c95b809416a960f930f4e979d26"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.00468",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}