Pith Number

pith:OTBIOCZC

pith:2012:OTBIOCZCGX3FS5UR4MYIGCX3F7

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Quantum fields are not fields. Comment on "There are no particles, there are only fields," by Art Hobson [Am. J. Phys. 81(3), 211-223 (2013)]

Massimiliano Sassoli de Bianchi

arxiv:1204.6384 v2 · 2012-04-28 · physics.hist-ph · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{OTBIOCZCGX3FS5UR4MYIGCX3F7}

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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	2026-05-18T02:56:19.442086Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

74c2870b2235f6597691e330830afb2fc6402db281db327a74e9839128ac2e71

Aliases

arxiv: 1204.6384 · arxiv_version: 1204.6384v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1204.6384 · pith_short_12: OTBIOCZCGX3F · pith_short_16: OTBIOCZCGX3FS5UR · pith_short_8: OTBIOCZC

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/OTBIOCZCGX3FS5UR4MYIGCX3F7 \
  | 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: 74c2870b2235f6597691e330830afb2fc6402db281db327a74e9839128ac2e71

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "aefe73272cf4edaabc10a3df85573addc26c756516876eec70fc3b4f9eb3cd05",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.hist-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-04-28T09:01:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "da29962eeba8e55aae892258d09ff524bc70d79937df1fb54a74b9e81187be2e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1204.6384",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}