Pith Number

pith:NVZWM3LX

pith:2015:NVZWM3LX4J2HBZBDOGPS25H5SZ

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Understanding the Electron

Kevin H. Knuth

arxiv:1511.07766 v1 · 2015-11-23 · physics.gen-ph · physics.hist-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NVZWM3LX4J2HBZBDOGPS25H5SZ}

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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	2026-05-18T01:26:03.704382Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6d73666d77e27470e423719f2d74fd9677310d4c369bba607ae43f8515fe4888

Aliases

arxiv: 1511.07766 · arxiv_version: 1511.07766v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1511.07766 · pith_short_12: NVZWM3LX4J2H · pith_short_16: NVZWM3LX4J2HBZBD · pith_short_8: NVZWM3LX

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/NVZWM3LX4J2HBZBDOGPS25H5SZ \
  | 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: 6d73666d77e27470e423719f2d74fd9677310d4c369bba607ae43f8515fe4888

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8b8b112849772c34b9622a1df07eaac90d10e9a43bfdd0e88d13dc13ff81b965",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.hist-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.gen-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2015-11-23T07:55:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4690d3315b7dca62317e9c6758ce5eb78f588870cfe36e1997027374a5537823"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1511.07766",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}