Pith Number

pith:ORT7ELUW

pith:2016:ORT7ELUW65WBKI7FWOYHKJBLIJ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A persistent particle ontology for QFT in terms of the Dirac sea

Andrea Oldofredi, Dirk-Andre Deckert, Michael Esfeld

arxiv:1608.06141 v1 · 2016-08-22 · physics.hist-ph · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ORT7ELUW65WBKI7FWOYHKJBLIJ}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T01:08:22.144300Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7467f22e96f76c1523e5b3b075242b42795d4cd7c980587087ba98571a5bd953

Aliases

arxiv: 1608.06141 · arxiv_version: 1608.06141v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1608.06141 · pith_short_12: ORT7ELUW65WB · pith_short_16: ORT7ELUW65WBKI7F · pith_short_8: ORT7ELUW

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/ORT7ELUW65WBKI7FWOYHKJBLIJ \
  | 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: 7467f22e96f76c1523e5b3b075242b42795d4cd7c980587087ba98571a5bd953

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fd05e42d85d66dc89f2fd960c1b1fdc3e8fd7748f0dba79634542dc82377cfcc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.hist-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-08-22T12:16:55Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fe61b47513142b0767afc65923b927361697baff3302e692e1293cf05a182b9a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1608.06141",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}