Pith Number

pith:O5OYWJ5Y

pith:2016:O5OYWJ5YHMGKTA46PX3NUZJLZ2

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Ludvig Lorenz, Electromagnetism, and the Theory of Telephone Currents

Helge Kragh

arxiv:1606.00205 v1 · 2016-06-01 · physics.hist-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{O5OYWJ5YHMGKTA46PX3NUZJLZ2}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:13:05.749063Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

775d8b27b83b0ca9839e7df6da652bce91bccd3ac077babb0e1fb6ffa30f0ec4

Aliases

arxiv: 1606.00205 · arxiv_version: 1606.00205v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1606.00205 · pith_short_12: O5OYWJ5YHMGK · pith_short_16: O5OYWJ5YHMGKTA46 · pith_short_8: O5OYWJ5Y

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/O5OYWJ5YHMGKTA46PX3NUZJLZ2 \
  | 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: 775d8b27b83b0ca9839e7df6da652bce91bccd3ac077babb0e1fb6ffa30f0ec4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f543271411cb49cf39149d77327a1f46a4c6a7e3cef0dece6a92fa97c92839cb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.hist-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-06-01T10:11:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "605344db0682f41cd7f3d0e15003c833e70ed023c87b31c8f33e28e8c504ec98"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1606.00205",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}